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Jennie Thlunaut (–1986) was a Tlingit artist, who is credited with keeping the art of Chilkat weaving alive and was one of the most celebrated Northwest Coastal master weavers of the 20th century.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 19 relations: Alaska, American Book Awards, Angoon, Alaska, Chilkat weaving, Clarissa Rizal, Haines, Alaska, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Klukwan, Alaska, Mountain goat, National Endowment for the Arts, National Heritage Fellowship, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Potlatch, Richard Dauenhauer, Sealaska Corporation, Smithsonian Institution, Tlingit, Tlingit language, Wrangell, Alaska.

  2. Native American textile artists
  3. Northwest Coast art
  4. Textile artists from Alaska
  5. Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes people
  6. Tlingit artists
  7. Weavers from Alaska

Alaska

Alaska is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America.

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American Book Awards

The American Book Award is an American literary award that annually recognizes a set of books and people for "outstanding literary achievement".

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Angoon, Alaska

Angoon (sometimes formerly spelled Angun, Aangóon) is a city on Admiralty Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States.

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Chilkat weaving

Chilkat weaving is a traditional form of weaving practiced by Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and other Northwest Coast peoples of Alaska and British Columbia. Jennie Thlunaut and Chilkat weaving are northwest Coast art.

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Clarissa Rizal

Clarissa Rizal (June 4, 1956 – December 7, 2016) was a Tlingit artist of Filipino descent. Jennie Thlunaut and Clarissa Rizal are 20th-century Native American artists, 20th-century Native American women, Alaska Native women, National Heritage Fellowship winners, Native American textile artists, Textile artists from Alaska, Tlingit artists and Weavers from Alaska.

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Haines, Alaska

Haines (Tlingit: Deishú) is a census-designated place located in Haines Borough, Alaska, United States.

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Harvard Museum of Natural History

The Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH) is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Klukwan, Alaska

Klukwan (Tlákw.aan) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Alaska, United States.

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Mountain goat

The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus), also known as the Rocky Mountain goat, is a cloven-footed mammal that is endemic to the remote and rugged mountainous areas of western North America.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Heritage Fellowship

The National Heritage Fellowship is a lifetime honor presented to master folk and traditional artists by the National Endowment for the Arts. Jennie Thlunaut and National Heritage Fellowship are National Heritage Fellowship winners.

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Nora Marks Dauenhauer

Nora Marks Keixwnéi Dauenhauer (May 8, 1927 – September 25, 2017) was a Tlingit poet, short-story writer, and Tlingit language scholar from Alaska. Jennie Thlunaut and Nora Marks Dauenhauer are 20th-century Native American women.

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Potlatch

A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,Harkin, Michael E., 2001, Potlatch in Anthropology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., vol 17, pp.

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Richard Dauenhauer

Richard Dauenhauer (April 10, 1942 – August 19, 2014) was an American poet, linguist, and translator who married into, and subsequently became an expert on, the Tlingit nation of southeastern Alaska.

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Sealaska Corporation

Sealaska Corporation is one of thirteen Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of aboriginal land claims.

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Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.

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Tlingit

The Tlingit or Lingít are Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America and constitute two of the two-hundred thirty-one (231, as of 2022) federally recognized Tribes of Alaska.

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Tlingit language

The Tlingit language (Lingít) is spoken by the Tlingit people of Southeast Alaska and Western Canada and is a branch of the Na-Dene language family.

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Wrangell, Alaska

Wrangell (Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw, Vrangel') is a borough in Alaska, United States.

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See also

Native American textile artists

Northwest Coast art

Textile artists from Alaska

Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes people

Tlingit artists

Weavers from Alaska

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Thlunaut

Also known as Jenny Thlunaut.