Southeastern Native American Rivercane Basketry

Name: Southeastern Native American Rivercane Basketry
Start: 2024-12-10T18:00:00-06:00
Location: 200 Municipal Dr, Hoover, AL, United States, Alabama 35216

Schedule

Tue, 10 Dec, 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

200 Municipal Dr, Hoover, AL, United States, Alabama 35216 | Hoover, AL

Jim Brown discusses this vital cultural skill for Native American women.
The Native American craft that most impressed 1700s-era Europeans coming into what is today the southeastern U.S., was rivercane basketry. It was almost exclusively done by women, and as these partly matriarchal societies faced an unstoppable avalanche of immigration, it played an interesting role in cultural survival and adaptation. See examples of Cherokee and Choctaw baskets of single weave double weave structures, and learn about other forms including perhaps the finest of all, the Chitimacha.