MASTER
 
 

Traditional Wabanaki Art and Technology

By Ethan Allen Homestead Museum (other events)

9 Dates Through May 17, 2022
 
ABOUT ABOUT

This decolonized college-level course is designed to acquaint the student with Wabanaki art and technology of the 1800-2021 period, with an emphasis on the “Western Abenaki” region.  We begin with a discussion and Indigenous critique of colonized "art" and commodity; dialectical materialism and functionalism; and subjugation and resistance of transcultural craft-workers. We then examine documented Wabanaki-origin ancestral technologies such as canoes, paddles, toboggans, snowshoes, wigwams and longhouses, splint, osier and bark basketry, traditional and modern attire, beadwork & quillwork, crooked knives, root clubs, wampum, medicine poles, eagle and medicine staffs, calumets and more.  

The course lectures will be a recorded YouTube video released early in the month, followed on each third Tuesday with a live/zoom discussion period at the Indigenous Heritage Center in Burlington. Lecture will be supplemented with booklets and displays of actual historic examples of the arts. 

Upon Registering you will be sent a link to our Learning Management software, to add yourself to the course, and access all of its materials and information.

Meeting Formats may change based on Public Health Guidance, Should this be required, you will be contacted.

Ethan Allen Homestead Museum