Gifts of pride and love : Kiowa and Comanche cradles

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Name/Title

Gifts of pride and love : Kiowa and Comanche cradles

Entry/Object ID

E99.K5.G54 2000

Description

With such words, Kiowa and Comanche people express their deep connection to their traditional lattice cradles. Prevalent from 1870 to 1930, these cradles represented a unique, yet extremely practical, art form. These "gifts of pride and love" reflected close networks, which remained intact despite the difficult transition to reservation life, new religions, government boarding schools, and allotment of tribal lands. This book, a beautiful homage to the artisans who crafted cradleboards, includes a history of the origins of lattice cradles as well as essays by eleven descendants of cradle makers. Forty color and over eighty black-and-white photographs vividly display the creativity and imagination found in these lovingly produced cradles. Reminding people of the Kiowas and the Comanches long, arduous struggles to create and maintain a viable identity, the cradles featured in this book connect us to the past.

Context

Catalog of an exhibition held Dec. 1999-Mar. 2000, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Okla., and travelling to several other museums. Produced by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University and members of Kiowa and Comanche cradle-making families.

Lexicon

Search Terms

comanche beadwork, cradleboards--great plains, cradles, indigenous peoples of north america--social life and customs, kiowa beadwork

Legacy Lexicon

Category

Exhibition catalog

Book Details

Editor

Barbara A. Hail

Volume/Number/Issue

Vol. 7

Publisher

Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University

Place Published

City

Bristol, Rhode Island

Date Published

2000

Call No.

E99.K5.G54

ISBN

912089105, 9780912089102

LCCN

101157

Notes

Length: 135

General Notes

Note Type

Contents

Note

Introduction / N.S. Momoday -- 1. A house for the beginning of life / B.A. Hail -- 2. The Rowell family cradles / E.R. Rhoades -- 3. My grandmother Guohaddle / B.A.D. Smith -- 4. Beyond worth / R. Doyah -- 5. Comanche cradles: carriers of tradition / Pahdopony -- 6. Memories of Atah / B.H.T. Rhoades -- 7. Millie Durgan and a family artistic tradition / S.A. Harjo -- 8. I remember how they did that / J. Ahtone -- 9. Keintaddle / B.H.T. Rhoades -- 10. Why I make cradles / V.P. Jennings -- 11. I learned from my elders / Weckeah -- Afterword: Nostalgia / C.H. Simmons -- We often wonder where they are / J. Arterberry -- They are gifts of pride and love.