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Jennie Thlunaut (1892–1986) was a Tlingit artist, who is credited with keeping the art of Chilkat weaving alive〔(Lifetime Honors: 1986 NEA Nation Heritage Fellowships. ) ''National Endowment for the Arts. (retrieved 22 May 2009)〕 and was one of the most celebrated Northwest Coastal master weavers of the 20th century.〔Brown, Steven C. ''Native Visions: Evolution in Northwest Coast Art from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century.'' Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998: 124-5. ISBN 0-295-97658-6.〕 ==Biography== Jennie Thlunaut, or ''Shaxʼsaani Kéekʼ'' ("Younger Sister of the Girls"),〔Chandonnet, Ann. ("Preserving the Tlingit 'fringe about the body.'" ) ''Juneau Empire.'' (retrieved 22 May 2009)〕 was born in 18 May 1892,〔Worl, Rosite and Charles Smythe. "Jennie Thlunaut: Master Chilkat Blanket Artist." ''The Artists Behind the Work.'' Fairbanks: University of Alaska Museum, 1986 (retrieved through Clarissa Hudson's website, 22 May 2009)〕 1890,〔Dauenhauer, Richard. ''Haa Ḵusteeyí, Our Culture: Tlingit Life Stories (Classics of Tlingit Oral Literature, Vol 3.'' Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994: 583-590. ISBN 978-0-295-97401-9.〕 or 1891〔 She was born in ''Lax̱acht’aak'', in the ''Jilḵaat Ḵwaan'' (Chilkat Territory), Southeast Alaska,〔 where she led a typical Tlingit childhood, being outdoors and playing at the beach. She hunted and fished her family, as well as gathered native plant foods, such as berries or wild celery.〔 Jennie’s parents were Matthew (''Yaandakinyeil'') and Ester (''Yaandakinyeil'') Johnson.〔 Jennie’s mother was Eagle moiety of the Wolf House (''G̱ooch Hít'') in Angoon, to which Jennie was born. Jennie’s father was ''G̱aanaax̱teidí'' clan in the Frog House (''Xíxchʼi Hít'') in Klukwan.〔 Jennie grew up in Klukwan in the Frog House. As a young girl Jennie showed interests in making baskets, moccasins, doing beadwork and in weaving by the make-believe games she played with her friends and her mother fostered those interests by teaching her how to do those arts.〔 Jennie has become widely recognized especially for her skill as a Tlingit weaver of Chilkat blankets. She received her first batch of mountain goat hair as a child and her mother taught her weaving when she was only 10 years old.〔 Jennie was married by arrangement at the age of thirteen in 1905 to John James, a ''Gaanax̱teidí'' man from the Shakes (''Shéiksh'') family in Wrangell.〔 Jennie’s parents gave the Chilkat blanket with the frog crest that Jennie and her mother had made in 1902 to John James at their traditional Tlingit wedding. Jennie and John James had three daughters, Kathryn, Edith and Edna. John James became ill with something that Jennie described as “funny sick” in 1920 and, after two months in the hospital in Haines, died. Before he died John James had a dream premonition, which he told Jennie about, that she would be able to take care of herself and so he died peacefully in knowing his spouse would be all right.〔 Jennie remarried in 1922 to John Mark Thlunaut,〔 with whom she moved into the Raven House (''Yéil Hít'') of the ''Lukwaax̱.ádi'' clan in Haines.〔 Jennie and John had on surviving daughter, Agnes. John Mark Thlunaut died in 1952, and Jennie moved out of the Raven house at Haines to a small house by the river in Klukwan. In 1973 Jennie moved to a new house that was “constructed by the Tlingit and Haida Housing Authority under the HUD program,” but its location away from the river was inconvenient for her and so she split her time between the two houses. Jennie was active in church and civic affairs and in traditional Tlingit ceremonies and potlatches throughout her life and has “been recognized for her life-long dedication to her home, family, people, and culture.” 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jennie Thlunaut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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