Fascinating challenges
Subtitle: studying material culture with Dorothy Burnham
By: Judy Thompson, Judy Hall and Leslie Tepper, in collaboration with Dorothy K. Burnham.
Contributors: Burnham, Dorothy K.; Tepper, Leslie Heyman, 1947-; Hall, Judy, 1946-; Canadian Ethnology Service.; Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Series: Mercury series,; Paper / Canadian Ethnology Service,; 136; Paper (Canadian Ethnology Service) ;; no. 136.
Publisher: Canadian Museum of Civilization
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Hull, Quebec
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Canada -- Clothing.; Indians of North America -- Material culture -- Canada.; Indian textile fabrics -- Canada.; Costume design -- Canada.; Native peoples -- Material culture -- Canada.; Autochtones -- Costume -- Canada.; Autochtones -- Culture matérielle -- Canada.
Description: "In 1990, Dorothy Burnham, a renowned authority on textiles and former curator at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, began work with three curators at the Canadian Ethnology Service of the Canadian Museum of Civilization. This book marks the 10th anniversary of this rewarding collaboration. It celebrates Dorothy Burnham's many contributions to ongoing research on the Museum's ethnographic collections from the Northern Athabaskan, Arctic, Plateau and Eastern Woodlands regions of North America.

Eight papers highlight the important role that comprehensive study of museum collections - in particular, the understanding of garment cuts and techniques of weaving, sewing and decorative work - can play in material culture studies. Three papers by individuals working in contemporary Aboriginal communities illustrate the value of this detailed information to those seeking to revive traditional skills.

Fascinating Challenges is an important resource for anyone interested in material culture studies and Aboriginal heritage."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Summary in French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes abstract in French.
Table of contents: title: Traditional summer clothing of the Dena'ina and the Gwich'in : variations on a theme / Judy Thomspon; title: The oldest Athabaskan garment? / Judy Thompson; title: The Gwich'in solution / Dorothy K. Burnham; title: Revitalization / Judy Thompson; title: My people did this : the re-making of a Gwich'in garment / Karen Wright Fraser; title: The Gwich'in traditional clothing project / Ingrid Kritsch; title: "Following the traditions of our ancestors" : Inuit clothing designs / Judy Hall; title: Masters of design / Dorothy K. Burnham; title: The old made new again : James Teit and the revitalization of cultural knowledge / Leslie Tepper; title: The making of a traditional Nlaka'pamux silver-willow cape / Pearl Hewitt; title: The observant eye : analyzing Nlaka'pamux woven mats / Leslie Tepper; title: "To make them beautiful" : porcupine quill decorated moccasins from the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes / Judy Hall.