Gallery Talk: Native American Basketry and Sovereignty

 

presented by Daniel Usner, Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History, Vanderbilt University 

Frist Art Museum Ingram Gallery

Free to members; admission required for not-yet-members 

Reservations recommended; sign up at FristArtMuseum.org/talk

 

Join Daniel Usner to learn about the the social and political significance of Chitimacha basketry, focusing on Clara Darden’s nesting baskets. Usner is the author of Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley before 1783 (University of North Carolina Press, 1992), American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories (University of Nebraska Press, 1998), Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in American History (Harvard University Press, 2009), and Weaving Alliances with Other Women: Chitimacha Indian Work in the New South (University of Georgia Press, 2015). His current book-length project is a study of the Chitimacha Indians of South Louisiana from the Civil War to the New Deal.