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WINTER 2015 VOL. 16 NO. 4


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On the Cover: This Chiricahua Apache doll is dressed in a deer hide poncho and skirt, the attire a Chiricahua girl would wear for her four-day puberty ceremony. A great deal of time, skill and effort went into making a girl’s puberty ceremony outfi t. To this day, they are almost always stained with yellow ocher, heavily fringed and ornately, but uniquely, detailed around the hems of the skirt and poncho, and the poncho’s collar. In this regard, each girl’s outfi t, made especially for her, is highly distinctive.


Chiricahua Apache doll, Arizona, Ca. 1880s, Deer hide, ocher, cotton cloth, wool cloth, wood, horsehair, glass beads, metal cones, brass, sinew. 16/1347


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NATIONAL MUSEUM of the AMERI CAN WINTER 2015


THE WORLD WOMEN MADE... AND THE


EVILS THEY FACE


A STORYTELLER IN THE FAMILY


PENA BONITA REMEMBERS: NATIVE ART IN NEW YORK CITY


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36 REMEMBERING THE VANISHED Laurie Odjick (Anishinaabe) is just one of hundreds of mothers, sisters and daughters in Canada who are mourning missing and murdered Indigenous women.


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PENA BONITA REMEMBERS The Seminole/Apache artist from New Mexico reviews a thriving career in New York City’s lively American Indian art scene.


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A WORLD MADE BY WOMEN The vast majority of the holdings in our Museum, and ethnographic museums around the world, are the work of women plying a broad range of crafts. But few who view them appreciate their deep spiritual context, full of heartbreak and joy.


32 SLIVER OF A FULL MOON A powerful production dramatizes the struggle to give Reservation women protection from abuse.


PHOTO BY ERNEST AMOROSO


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