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Article: Threads of place.(Brief Article)
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- Sunset
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- July 1, 2001
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* Ask Hopi weaver Ramona Sakiestewa--consultant to the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and past chair of the New Mexico Arts Commission--what influences her work, and she answers simply "the vivid colors and intense bright light of the Southwest." * Every summer when Sakiestewa was a child, she camped with her family on ranches, at ruins, and on reservations, all within a few days of Albuquerque. Those vacations awakened in her a desire to translate the visual drama of the region into tapestry. * Sakiestewa taught herself to weave, which was unusual, because in Hopi culture, men weave, not women: "I had uncles who wove and my ...