SITKA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK -ACCESSION 80
BORHAUER BASKET COLLECTION
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu:8080/resources/course/view.php?id=3
These notes are as written by Doris Borhauer, including the historic way “Tlingit” is written.
© Sitka Tribe of Alaska - Pictures taken by Helen Dangel

BASKETRY RESOURCES ON THE WEB Compiled by Steve Henrikson

 

The Language of Native American Baskets: an exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
http://www.nmai.si.edu/exhibitions/baskets/index.cfm

Northwest Basket Weavers Guild
http://www.nwbasketweavers.org/

Cedar bark gathering customs of the Kwakiutl, from the U'mista Cultural Society Newsletter
http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/umistweb/art4-e.html

Cedar bark gathering methods of the Kwakiutl, from the U'mista Cultural Society Newsletter:
http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/umistweb/art5a-e.html

Entwined with Life: an exhibition of historic and contemporary Native baskets from western North America at the Burke Museum, Seattle. Includes images and information on over 500 baskets from western North American, including contemporary baskets.
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/baskets/

Haida basketry: An interview with Haida weaver April Churchill-Davis about gathering materials and weaving baskets. (Spruceroots Magazine Feb. 1997)
http://www.spruceroots.org/November.97/AprilChurchillDavis.html

Tlingit Weaving: Suzi Williams, Tlingit, writes about Chilkat and "Raven's Tail" weaving. Includes link to information about Jennie Thlunaut of Haines, one of the elders who passed the Chilkat weaving tradition to the current generation of weavers.
http://alaskanativearts.net/suzi/tlingit.htm

A twined root gathering bag collected by Lewis and Clark.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Lewis_and_Clark/basket.html

A Nu-chah-nulth basketry hat collected by Lewis and Clark.
http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/Lewis_and_Clark/hat.html

Haida Basketry
http://www.civilization.ca/aborig/haida/havfu04e.html

Skokomish Basketry by Bruce Miller
http://207.173.77.233/skokomish/bruce_miller.html

A basketry bibliography:
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/nwbaskets.html

Resources from Ron Eglash
Native American Cybernetics: Indigenous Knowledge Resources in Information Technology
by Ron Eglash
The term “indigenous knowledge” usually refers to the understanding of natural processes, such as ethnobotany or ethnomedicine. Yet Native American knowledge systems include many aspects of contemporary information technologies, and native communities have become increasingly adept in appropriating computing and communication devices for their own use. I refer to this complex of indigenous and appropriated information technologies as Native American Cybernetics. The term “cybernetics” was coined by mathematician Norbert Wiener to describe his vision for a unified science of control, communication, and computation in both natural and artificial systems. Cybernetics is particularly appropriate for Native American technological practices, in which the flow of information across mental and material, natural and human, and mundane and spiritual domains have been so important.
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http://www.rpi.edu/~eglash/eglash.dir/nacyb.htm


Culturally Situated Design Tools:
teaching math through culture
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Many cultural designs are based on mathematical principles. This software will help students learn standards-based mathematics as they simulate the original artifacts, and develop their own creations.
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http://www.rpi.edu/~eglash/csdt.html

 

Additional Web Resources

An Interview with Tlingit Elder Lydia George
http://ankn.uaf.edu/SOP/sopv4i5.html#interview

Math in Tlingit Art: A Culture-Based Technology and Mathematics Project for K-12 Classrooms in Southeast Alaska by Claudette Engblom-Bradley
http://www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/nasgem/ncsm04/index.htm

Clarissa Hudson Studio web site
http://clarissahudson.com/index.htm
I was born in 1956 in Juneau, Alaska, a few years before Alaska became the 49th state.  My mother, Irene, is Tlingit Indian from the village of Hoonah, Alaska; my father, William, is Filipino American from Seattle, WA.  I was introduced to Alaskan Native art while in high school, when I produced my first carved cedar box.  During the next year, I met master Tlingit dancer and regalia-maker Harry K. Bremner, Sr., who invited me to join his touring dance troupe, the Mt. St. Elias Dancers from Yakutat, Alaska.  Around the same time, I met my future husband, Bill Hudson. 

 

Teri Rofkar Alaska Native Basketry and Weaving Web site
Teri has been weaving baskets and ceremonial robes since 1986, using the traditional Tlingit Indian styles and techniques passed down to her by her Elders. We invite you to explore Teri's fine work, by clicking the links to the left.
http://www.terifofkar.com/

Software, Video and Units

Topaz's Math in Tlingit Weaving Design Rubric (pdf)

Topaz's Math in Tlingit Weaving Design Rubric - Blueprints (pdf)

Battista, Michael T. Shape Makers: Developing Geometric Reasoning with the Geometer's Sketchpad, (Berkeley, CA: Key Curriculum Press, 1997).
http://www.keypress.com/catalog/products/software/

Key Curriculum Press: The Geometric Sketchpad Resource Center
http://www.keypress.com/sketchpad/

LCSI is a leading publisher of award-winning, constructivist educational software forK-12 schools around the world. To review LCSI products go to this web site. http://www.microworlds.com/solutions/index.html

OVERVIEW OF 'NDAHOO'AAH

'Ndahoo'aah teaches some of the Navajo crafts that are still practiced on the Reservation. The classes emphasize Navajo culture and tradition. At the same time, "Ndahoo'aah teaches LOGO graphics programming, focusing on mathematics (especially geometry). Graphics tools are then used to produce traditional designs and colorations.
http://www.math.utah.edu/~clemens/overview.html

Dauenhauer, Nora Marks and Scollon, Suzanne In Memory of Jennie Thlunaut A tribute to the life and work of Jennie Thlunaut - Tlingit Master Artist 21 minute video 1988 Sealaska Heritage Foundation
"Work on this video began during a Chilkat weaving workshop that Jennie taught in 1985. Through poetry, interviews, and documenatry footage, the video looks a Jennie's life and art. It also is a studey of the relationship between kinship, land, and at.oow. This is not a professional production; on the contrary, it is a loving and persal homage to Jennie, shot on home video by Nara Marks Dauenhauer and Suzaane Scollon.

Haygood, Monika and Miller, Dirk . May 2001. "Math Through Basketry. A math unit developed for the Juneau School District Tlingit Math Project." This is a 5th grade math unit-the first of its kind-developed as part of the "Teachers Teaching Tlingit" project sponsored by the Juneau School District. Miller and Haygood are teachers at Gastineau Elementary in Douglas. An electronic version of this and other material developed by the project is posted on the JSD website. The link is: http://www.jsd.k12.ak.us/district/ed_linksf/jsd_tlingit/

Hoover, Lori December 2003 "Math in Tlingit Basketry Website" 1st/2nd Grade Riverbend Elementary School Juneau School District

Hoover, Lori December 2003 , Tlingit Basketry: Art~Math~Technology. This website was developed for Claudette Engblom Bradley's Math in Tlingit Art course in the fall/winter of 2003-2004. http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jflmh/TlingitBaskets/

Shryock ,Topaz December 2003 "Math in Tlingit Weaving Design Rubric"
8th Grade Math Dzantiki Héeni Middle School Juneau School District

Smith, I, and Yoder, S. Introduction to Microworlds Pro: A LOGO Hypermedia Environment, SKyIES Publishing Company, Eugene, Oregon
http://www.skyiespublishing.com

Smith, I. and Yoder, S. MicroWorlds Pro: Hypermedia Project Development and Logo Scripting, SKyIES Publishing Company, Eugene, Oregon
http://www.skyiespublishing.com

 

Annotated Bibliography on Tlingit Basketry

Compiled by Richard Dauenhauer, Andy Hope and Claudette Engblom Bradley

Borhauer, Doris. ND. SITK ACC 80. Catalog of the Borhauer Basket Collection at the National Park Service Sitka National Monument Visitor Center. Detailed provenience of most baskets. Typescript. Digital photos of the entire collection have been taken by the Sitka Tribe of Alaska. These photos, along with documentation on the Tlingit women who wove the baskets, will be posted on the Math in Indigenous Weaving web page.

Bradley, C. (May 1993). Making a Navajo Blanket Design with LOGO. The ArithmeticTeacher, vol. 40, no. 9 (refereed journal). Reston, Virginia: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Bradley, C (1993), Navajo I, Creating Burntwater Design, Multiculturalism in Mathematics, Science, and Technology: Readings and Activities, 1993, Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.

Bradley, C. (1992). Four Directions Indian Beadwork Design with Logo. The Arithmetic Teacher, Vol. 39, No. 9 (refereed journal). Reston, Virginia: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Busby, Sharon. 2003. Spruce Root Basketry of the Haida and Tlingit. Photography by Ron Reeder. Illustrations by Margaret Davidson. Seattle: Marquand Books, Inc., in association with University of Washington Press. This is the most recent book on the subject; it has magnificent color photographs and detailed illustrations of the techniques.

Corey, Peter. 1995. "A Proposed Glossary of Spruce Root Basketry Terms." Concepts, April 1995. Juneau: Alaska State Museum. (Reprint of Technical Paper 3.) Proposed terms are defined and illustrated. Peter Corey is Director of the Sheldon Jackson Museum in Sitka, and one of the foremost research specialists in Tlingit and Haida basket weaving. He was the prime mover in the effort to reprint the classic publications listed below in this bibliography.

Emmons, George T. 1993. The Basketry of the Tlingit and The Chilkat Blanket. Sitka: Sheldon Jackson Museum. This is a facsimile reprint of two classic articles first published in 1903 and 1907. The 1993 edition features an appendix by Nora Marks Dauenhauer on translation of the Tlingit terms and transliteration into new orthography. There are additional appendixes by other specialists correcting plant, fish, shellfish, animal, and bird names used by Emmons. Illustrated with many black and white photographs of hats and baskets, and with many examples of designs.

Gunther, Erna. 1990. Design Units on Tlingit Baskets. Sitka: Sheldon Jackson Museum. This thesis was first written in 1920. Dr. Gunther worked with Peter Corey, the SJ Museum staff, and Friends of the S. J. Museum to prepare it for publication. It was published posthumously in 1984, with a revised edition in 1990. Illustrated with many examples and statistical descriptions of designs.

Paul, Frances. 1991. Spruce Root Basketry of the Alaska Tlingit. Sitka: Sheldon Jackson Museum. 2nd reprint edition. This was first published in 1944 by the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs. It was distributed in many printings by Haskill Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, including 1944, 1954, 1963, 1970, 1975. It was reprinted by Friends of the Sheldon Jackson Museum in 1981. The SJ reprint features an appendix by Nora Marks Dauenhauer on translation of the Tlingit terms and transliteration into new orthography, and several addenda providing fuller identification in captions. Illustrated with black and white photographs of several hats and baskets, and with many examples of designs.

Shotridge, Louis. 1984. Tlingit Woman's Root Basket. Sitka: Sheldon Jackson Museum. This was first published in September 1921 by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania as Museum Journal, Vol. XII, No. 3. The reprint features an appendix by Nora Marks Dauenhauer on translation of the Tlingit terms and transliteration into new orthography. Illustrated with black and white photographs of several hats and baskets.

Weber, Ronald L. 1986. Emmons's Notes on Field Museum's Collection of Northwest Coast Basketry. Fieldiana Anthroipology Series, n.s. no. 9.Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History.

Distributed by Fortsas Books. Emmons used the Filed Museum collection and a similar collection at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as the basis of his 1903 article (reprinted as Emmons 1993 in this bibliography).