Painful Beauty
Smetzer, Megan A.
For over 150 years, Tlingit women artists have beaded colorful, intricately beautiful designs on moccasins, dolls, octopus bags, tunics, and other garments. Painful Beauty suggests that at a time when Indigenous cultural practices were actively being repressed, beading supported cultural continuity, demonstrating Tlingit women¿s resilience, strength, and power. Beadwork served many uses, from the ceremonial to the economic, as women created be...