Louisiana Coushatta basket makers : traditional knowledge, resourcefulness, and artistry as a means of survival /

Linda Langley and Denise Bates's "Louisiana Coushatta Basket Makers" is the first book-length work to explore the basket-makers of Louisiana's Coushatta Tribe. The authors centralize Coushatta history around the experiences and contributions of the tribe's basket weavers by...

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Main Authors: Langley, Linda P. (Author), Bates, Denise E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]
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