Efflorescence and identity in Iroquois arts

Culture:
Tuscarora includes: Ska:rù:rę'
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Onondaga includes: Onöñda'gega'
Oneida includes: Onyota'a:ka
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Language: English
Date: 1984
Contributor: Hanks, Christina Johannsen, 1950-
Subject: Anthropology | Ethnography | Art | Indian artists | Art | Politics and government | History
Type: Text
Genre: Dissertations
Extent: 292 pages
Description: This dissertation was submitted to the anthropology department of Brown University by Christina Barbara Johannsen (later Hanks) in 1984. The author was also the founding director (and later on the Board of Directors) of the Schoharie Museum of the Iroquois Indian and a trustee of the Mohawk Caughnawaga Museum. The dissertation is based on fieldwork with Haudenosaunee artists and craftspeople and in museum collections. The author attempted to draw from Haudenosaunee communities through the United States and Canada to show how modern Haudenosaunee art has become "a means of maintaining and expressing a sense of Iroquois identity in a non-Iroquois world," and that the 1970s were in particular a moment of efflorescence as the People of the Longhouse asserted their identity through political activism and art.
Collection: Efflorescence and identity in Iroquois arts Mss.970.6.J57e