tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743733062223446224.post2868588421843015962..comments2016-08-22T08:39:29.251-04:00Comments on Historic Iroquois and Wabanaki Beadwork: A Mid-19th Century Tonawanda Seneca Style of BeadworkIroquois and Wabanaki Beadworkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02270256985923888385noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743733062223446224.post-74282821275768301022014-01-16T18:42:24.333-05:002014-01-16T18:42:24.333-05:00A beautiful and interesting post. She sounds like ...A beautiful and interesting post. She sounds like a fascinating woman. It's shame that all we know of her seems to come for other people. I find myself wishing there was a journal or correspondence, anything in her own words, about her work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743733062223446224.post-20693854414395233312013-12-30T09:25:53.897-05:002013-12-30T09:25:53.897-05:00My photos of the table cover in the Rochester Muse...My photos of the table cover in the Rochester Museum and Science Center were first published in the article “Fashion, Nationhood and Identity: The Textile Artistry of Caroline G. Parker” published in American Indian Art Magazine V37, 4 Autumn 2012. Correspondence between Caroline and Lewis Henry Morgan shows that materials and payments were made to Caroline and distributed among several family members including Mariah Poodry Parker, an admired Tonawanda Seneca sewer whose descendants continue to live and make art on the Tonawanda Seneca Reservation. Although many items of Seneca and Tuscarora bead work from the mid eighteenth century have been liberally connected to Caroline Parker, very few have acceptable historical provenience. The table cover appears in Caroline’s correspondence when she requests payment from Morgan, and is thus attributable to her. Beadwork was then and is now often produced in “sewing circles” in which design and techniques are shared freely and copied by others, making it difficult to attribute any common designs to one particular artist. In the 19th century, design trends moved quickly through Haudenosaunee communities and Nations as sewers adapted to fashion trends of the times to produce trade items for consumer markets.Deborah Hollerhttp://commons.esc.edu/deborahholler/noreply@blogger.com