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Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience

By Megan A. Smetzer
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By Megan A. Smetzer
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Winner of the 2024 Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Showcases the vibrant practices of Tlingit women's beadwork

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, ...

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Social SciencesArt, Architecture & PhotographyNative American StudiesArt - History & CriticismGeneral & Miscellaneous Native American StudiesArt of the AmericasNative American Studies - Art & Artifacts - General & Miscellaneous