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People Will Know Our Names
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Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 5:00pm
Hinchcliff Reception Hall
Reception and gallery talk with fifth-generation Diné weaver Linda Teller Pete
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 5:00pm
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5:00 Welcome and Reception
5:30 Gallery Talk
Lynda Teller Pete is a fifth-generation Diné weaver from the Newcomb and Two Grey Hills areas of the Navajo Nation. In conjunction with the exhibition Dancers of the Nightway: Ceremonial Imagery in Navajo Weaving, Pete will share her personal history and deep knowledge of Diné weavings with our campus and community audiences. Although many of the weavers from this exhibition remain unidentified, their traditions and voices live on through the stories and textiles of their descendants.
Co-sponsored by Five Colleges, Inc., Amherst College Department of American Studies, Five College Native American and Indigenous Studies Program, Mount Holyoke College History Department, University of Massachusetts Department of History, and Mount Holyoke College Office of the Dean of the College .
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January 19, 2016 to May 29, 2016
Dancers of the Nightway
Ceremonial Imagery in Navajo Weaving
For Navajo women, the act of weaving has a sacred dimension since, according to tradition, they learned their craft from a supernatural being named Spider Woman. In the distant past, they wove warm blankets for their personal use and, on occasion, for intertribal barter. In the 1880s, the...
January 21, 2016 to April 10, 2016
People Will Know Our Names
Collection Spotlight
Curated by Lynda Teller Pete, a fifth-generation weaver from the Newcomb and Two Grey Hills areas of the Navajo Nation, this collection spotlight focuses on a ca. 1935-1940 Navajo weaving of Yei figures. As a complement to the concurrent exhibition ...
