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<p>[QUOTE="Potteryplease, post: 8669995, member: 16407"]Here's an 18" x 24" Navajo weaving dated 1932 and with a profile image of a Native person in a feather headdress.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]428647[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It's interesting to me as a cultural artifact. At that time, Hollywood films were popularizing imagery that implied all Native Americans were Plains Indians, and ignoring the huge number of cultural and regional differences between Indigenous groups. </p><p><br /></p><p>In a documentary about Hollywood Indians, First Nations film critic Jesse Wente calls the elision of individual cultural traits through this kind of popular imagery, especially the feather headdress, an ingenious act of cultural destruction.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me, then, there are a lot of contexts 'woven' into this piece, made by a Navajo most likely in Arizona.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Potteryplease, post: 8669995, member: 16407"]Here's an 18" x 24" Navajo weaving dated 1932 and with a profile image of a Native person in a feather headdress. [ATTACH=full]428647[/ATTACH] It's interesting to me as a cultural artifact. At that time, Hollywood films were popularizing imagery that implied all Native Americans were Plains Indians, and ignoring the huge number of cultural and regional differences between Indigenous groups. In a documentary about Hollywood Indians, First Nations film critic Jesse Wente calls the elision of individual cultural traits through this kind of popular imagery, especially the feather headdress, an ingenious act of cultural destruction. For me, then, there are a lot of contexts 'woven' into this piece, made by a Navajo most likely in Arizona.[/QUOTE]
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