Title and Index: Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles

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Date of this Version

1996

Document Type

Article

Citation

Published in Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles: Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, Chicago, Illinois, 1996. (Minneapolis, 1997).

Comments

Copyright 1996 by the author.

Abstract

Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles

Contents

Preface...........................7

Panel: Sacred Textile Banners of Japan

Sacred Textile Banners of Japan Monica Bethe...........................9

Braids on Early Japanese Banners Masako Kinoshita...........................19

From Secular Garment to Sacred Object: Kosode Refashioned into Buddhist Altar Cloths and Banners Nobuhiko Maruyama...........................29

Offertory Banners from Rural Japan: Echigo-Chijimi Weaving and Worship Sharon Sadako Takeda...........................38

Session 1

The Tenjukoku Shucho and the Asuka Period Funerary Practices Maria del Rosario Pradel...........................48

The Reproduction and Ceremonial Offering of Sacred Textiles and Apparel in Ise Jingu's Shikinen Sengu (abstract only) Rosemarie Bernard...........................57

Panel: The Sacred Drapo of Haitian Vodou: Antecedent, Tradition and Metamorphoses

Haitian Drapo Vodou: Imagery, Ritual and Perception Susan Elizabeth Tselos...........................58

Some Breton and Muslim Antecedents of Voudou Drapo LeGrace Benson ...........................68

For the Flower of Ginen: The Artistry of Clotaire Bazile, a Haitian Vodou Flagmaker Anna Wexler...........................76

Session 2

Laundry: Ritual as Habitual Use Margo Mensing...........................86

Ceremonial Textiles of the Mardi Gras Indians Ann M DuPont...........................94

Video: Between Light and Shadow (abstract) Kathryn Lypke Vigesaa...........................103

Session 3

The Ampato Textile Offerings William J Conklin...........................104

The Great Cloth Burial at Cahuachi, Nasca Valley, Peru Elena Phipps...........................111

Syncretic Cloth, Virgins and Colonization in the Peruvian Andes Karen Michelsen...........................121

Textiles of Sacrifice: Aztec Ritual Capes Patricia Rieff Anawalt...........................131

Session 4

Manifest Insignificance - The Consecrated Veil of Medieval Religious Women Desiree Koslin...........................141

Traditional Textiles in Transylvanian and Danubian Mourning Rituals Joyce Corbett...........................148

Beauty Enhances Ritual Jennifer Wearden...........................156

Panel: Ritual Cloth as Emblem of Socio-Religious Values in Indonesia

Panel Introduction Rens Heringa...........................165

Heirloom and Hierarchy - The Sacred Lawo Butu Cloth of the Lio of Central Flores Willemijn de Jong...........................168

Heirloom and Male Ancestors - The Flowered Kain Kembangan of Kerek, East Java Rens Heringa...........................178

Heirloom Cloth and Social Organization - The Ceremonial Kain Sandang Gobo of the Minangkabau, West Sumatra Linda Hanssen...........................185

Session 5

Maori Weaving: The Intertwining of Spirit, Action and Metaphor Suzanne Mac Aulay and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri...........................195

Video: Entrance Gates Commission - Maui Arts and Cultural Center (introduction to the video) Pat Hickman...........................205

Video: The Traditional Method of Masi Making on the Island of Taveuni, Fiji (abstract) Daniel Roy Hildenbrandt...........................208

Video: Threads of Time - Handmade Textiles for Weddings in Fez, Morocco (introduction to the video) Louise W Mackie...........................209

Panel: Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles and the Constitution of Value in Africa

The Meaning of Yo rub a Aso Olona Is Far from Water Tight Lisa Aronson...........................210

Mourning and Memory: Factory-Printed Textiles and the Baule of Cote D'Ivoire Kathleen E. Bickford...........................221

White Robes for Worship: The Umnazaretha of the Nazareth Baptist Church in South Africa Karen H Brown...........................229

Divine Worth: Weaving and the Ancestors in Highland Madagascar Rebecca L. Green...........................239

Session 6

Cloth and the Corpse in Ebira John Picton...........................249

Sacred Textiles from an Ancient Nubian Temple Nettie K. Adams...........................259

Video: Contemporary Fashions of Traditional Textiles and Clothing in the Gambia (abstract) June Pearson Bland...........................269

Sessions 7 and 8

Four Eighteenth-Century Monumental Ethiopian Tablet-Woven Silk Curtains Michael Gervers...........................270

Naming and Meaning: Ritual Textiles of the Iban of Sarawak Traude Gavin...........................280

(Re)Situating Ceremonial Textiles in Ifugao, Upland Philippines B. Lynne Milgram...........................288

Appendix: Textile Society of America's 1996 Governing Board...........................298