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What American Indian makings can teach us about histories of rhetorics

Rhetorical Powwows. What American Indian makings can teach us about histories of rhetorics. Malea Powell 2010. Iconic Semasiographic Systems -- a direct graphical relationship between an image and its referent.

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What American Indian makings can teach us about histories of rhetorics

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  1. Rhetorical Powwows What American Indian makings can teach us about histories of rhetorics Malea Powell 2010

  2. Iconic Semasiographic Systems -- a direct graphical relationship between an image and its referent.

  3. Conventional Semasiographic Systems -- meaning is indicated by the interrelationship of symbols that are arbitrarily codified.

  4. Quipu

  5. Wampum Quipu

  6. Wampum Wampum

  7. Things Chitimacha Rivercane Basket (John Darden) Cherokee Rivercane Basket (Emma Garrett)

  8. Robin is a multimedia artist who works with rivercane, gourds, porcupine quills, moose hair, leather, sweetgrass, trade cloth, silk, glass beads, pains, clay and other sculpting mediums, and precious metals.

  9. Robin examines an ancient Southeastern mat in the Smithsonian collections facility in Washington, DC.

  10. Robin examines pre-contact Cherokee rivercane baskets at the NMAI collections facility.

  11. Robin’s miniature burden basket was accepted for the 2007 Trail of Tears Art Show sponsored by the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

  12. Choctaw Burden Basket

  13. The water spider in action

  14. Mississippian shell gorget, circa 1600 ACE

  15. Kentucky Cane Brake

  16. Robin cutting cane Emmaline cutting cane

  17. Robin splitting cane at the Smithsonian Folk Festival, 2006

  18. Robin working on mock-up of ancient mat pattern.

  19. Scott Shoemaker, Miami Ribbonwork Artist

  20. Bonita Nelson & Robin Scott at the Miami Powwow, 2010

  21. Charles Alexander Eastman

  22. Robin’s student --learning by doing

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