Events
Weaving the World into Existence: The Power of Women, Water and Canebrakes
Date and Time
Monday, November 18, 2019 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Description
LIB 100 & LIB 201 Approved
The intimate relationship between women, water and canebrakes is an ancient one. Women utilized the cane growing along the waterways of the south central and southeastern states as far as Oklahoma and Texas and as far north as Maryland for thousands of years. Complex cultural visual languages, ideas, shared world views and ways of being were woven into the cane basketry that shaped, instructed and held the peoples cultural center. Through the technological ingenuity and creative vision, women wove their world into existence from the cradle to the grave.