To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions

From the Jacket

Native quitters in the Hawaiian Islands and North America have long used color and design to create objects of aesthetic distinction that fulfill specific tribal and pan-Indian purposes.

To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions regards the long history and contemporary expression of the quiltmaking art, the culmination of a decade of research among Native Hawaiian and North American Indian communities with strong and dynamic quilting traditions.

PART I

A Gathering of Cultural Expression

North American Indian and Native Hawaiian Quiltmaking

PART II

Tradition and Identity

• Learning the Threads: Sioux Quiltmaking in South Dakota
• The Craft of Identity: Quilting Traditions of the Waccamaw-Siouan Tribe
• Lakota Star Quilts: Commodity, Ceremony, and Economic Development
• The Hawaiian Quilt Research Project

PART III

Strengthening Community

• Stars of Honor: The Basketball Star Quilt Ceremony
• How Yupik Women Spoil Their Cloth: The Seal Party Quilts of the Nelson Island Eskimos
• The Quiltmakers of Akwesasne
• Quilts and the Hopi Baby-Naming

PART IV

A Native Aesthetic

• Rosebud Quilts: Building a Museum Collection
• Hawaiian Quilting: A Personal Remembrance
• Contemporary Native Quilt Artists