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Waccamaw-Siouan Quilts: A Model for Studying Native American Quilting

1997
Hemming, Jill
United States
From Uncoverings 1997, Volume 18 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group
Jill Hemming lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she works as a freelance folklorist. Her interest in quilting began while com­pleting fieldwork with Native American tribes in eastern North Carolina and with Mormon communities in Idaho. Cultural docu­mentation and public sector advocacy are skills she learned while completing a graduate degree in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jill believes in a community-based approach which recognizes and promotes living traditions.

​When AQSG added Uncoverings articles to the Quilt Index, they omitted all the illustrations, for lack of permissions. Although the articles found in the QI (1980-2010, 2012-2016) lack illustrations, they link to quilts, essays, special collections, and documentation projects across the Quilt Index, introducing them to a wider audience. The permission issues have since been resolved and in 2024, AQSG completed adding all the Uncoverings volumes from 1980-2023 to the Digital Commons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They are completely searchable and include all the illustrations. You can find, Uncoverings 1997, Volume 18, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/42/.

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