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dataTL[1] = new data("images/collaboration/tl01_l.jpg","<font><strong>Lisa Telford</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;May 1999<br><br>&quot;I belong to the eagle people. I'm Masset Git'ans Git'anee. I was born in Ketchikan, Alaska. My mother is Jane Kristovich and my grandmother is Selina Peratrovich. I learned basket weaving from Delores Churchill, my aunt. I learned pre-contact clothing from my cousin Holly Churchill, who studied it at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[2] = new data("images/collaboration/tl02_l.jpg","<font>&quot;When I was 13 years old, my grandmother wanted to teach me how to weave. Haidas never said 'I want to teach you how to weave,' they said 'come here, I want to show you something.' I was 13 and when you're 13 you don't have time to do that kind of thing; you're too busy running around. I said 'I don't have time for that,' and I remembered that moment for the rest of my life. My grandmother passed away in 1982 and I just remember that she always wanted to show me and I missed the opportunity.<br><br>One day I was telling my mom that I wanted to learn and she said, 'Well, let me talk to Delores.' So, in 1992 I had a basic lesson and I liked it, so I applied for a grant with the Washington State Arts Commission. I was accepted and was an apprentice to Delores Churchill in 1993. Then, in 1996 I was awarded a grant with the Washington State Arts Commission to study cedar clothing and apprenticed with Holly Churchill.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[3] = new data("images/collaboration/tl03_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I learned to weave because I wanted to; I had a strong desire to learn. I was at the point to where I'd lost the chance with my grandmother (who had since passed away) and I needed to make that connection. So I got hooked up with my aunt who came and gave me my first lesson and some scraps of bark. From that I made a sorrowful hat and was very proud of it. I moved on from there and made a little basket and just worked on my own.<br><br>After I got the grant I went up to Masset, British Columbia to harvest materials. My mother was born there, whereas I was born in Alaska, so it was the first time I was ever in her village. It was quite an experience for me: I met a lot of people and a lot of relatives. No one ever gave me any tools but while I was there I got a pusher: a deer rib bone that I'd found washed up on the beach. It fit my hand like a glove so I knew it was meant to be. I harvested roots, which was a week long process, and barely had enough to make a hat.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[4] = new data("images/collaboration/tl04_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I find my own material. I harvest red and yellow cedar. To do so I have to travel very far. I get up at 4 a.m. and go up a mountain, traveling on a loggers road. I get back home by 11 o'clock at night. I have to prepare and work with my material the following day, so it's a two day process - sometimes three. The cedar can only be harvested once a year. Red cedar can be harvested in May, when the pollen is blowing from the trees, and yellow cedar is harvested shortly after.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[5] = new data("images/collaboration/tl05_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I pull the bark off the tree, taking the outer bark off. It sounds easy, but it isn't. You can take up to a third of the bark off the tree without killing it. I take a quarter because less is better. The tree gets no nourishment where the bark's been harvested, and no more limbs will grow in that section.<br><br>When you go to harvest, you look for a tree that hasn't been harvested already. It has to be straight and tall, with the limbs high up. You bless the tree to let it know it will be living on in beautiful clothing. If you take bark from a twisted tree, or take the bark from all away around the tree (known as girdling), the tree will die so you have to be very careful. I tried to harvest in Masset, B. C., but all the trees in the forest had been harvested. Once a tree has been harvested it can never be harvested again.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[6] = new data("images/collaboration/tl06_l.jpg","<font>&quot;After returning from the harvest, depending on what I want to use the bark for, I prepare it. If it's for cedar clothing, I use it as it is. If it's for baskets, it needs to be refined so I will split it two or three times and hang it to dry for a week or more. I then store it in containers for a year. If I use it before the year is up, it is kind of greenish, like fresh cut lumber. There's another traditional reason why they store it for a year, but I don't know what it is.<br><br>For thigh spinning you simmer, not boil, the full thickness bark in water, with a little oil to draw the sap out. Then you split it down into tiny strips and thigh spin it. Thigh spinning is one way to make cordage for clothing, or just cordage in general. It's two strands held separately with the finger, pushing it forward; the finger applying the pressure. Release your finger, pull back, and it naturally twists into cordage.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[7] = new data("images/collaboration/tl07_l.jpg","<font>&quot;Completing a basket is like therapy for me. I have another job which involves driving 45 minutes to an hour and a half everyday, and it's stressful. When I get home at night, to relax, I make a small basket. I weave all of the time. My granddaughter watches me so much that she can thigh spin. My mother speaks Haida to her.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[8] = new data("images/collaboration/tl08_l.jpg","<font>&quot;There are 20 Haida speakers remaining in the world today and my mother is one of them. She's teaching my granddaughter to speak Haida, and now is the time. My granddaughter can sing Haida songs, and she's learning to thigh spin. She spends two and a half days a week with us, and she's learning how to do basketry.<br><br>The only thing she doesn't know how to do is start a basket. She'll ask, 'Can I weave on your basket?' and I'll say, 'No, start your own'. She'll say, 'I can't how.' (she doesn't know how to say 'I don't know how' yet). I'll say, 'Yes you can, go start your own.' and she'll tell me, 'No, start it for me and I'll weave on it.' So I'll start it for her. The next step for her is to start one on her own. I've always involved her since she was small. I say, 'This is what we're doing, we're weaving this hat, or we're weaving this basket, we're doing this and here's your weaver.' and she'll say, 'I need a weaver.' This is a picture of the first time she started to thigh spin. She was 2 years old when this was taken.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[9] = new data("images/collaboration/tl09_l.jpg","<font>Canoe Cape<br>Pounded red cedar bark warp, thigh spun-two strand yellow cedar weft, sea otter fur trim,<br>14&quot;W. at top, 44&quot;W. at bottom, 21&quot;H., 1/98.<br><br>&quot;This is an example of a canoe cape. It's done with 400 feet of thigh spun cordage. You spin 200 feet first, and thighspin the other 200 feet as you're weaving. It has sea otter trim across the top.<br><br>The canoe cape was traditionally worn by people while they were canoeing, to keep them dry in the weather. This one is long compared to the ones I've seen in the museums. I felt that a short canoe cape wasn't proper. After completing the long one I realized that when sitting down canoeing you only need the cape to come down to a certain point to keep your shoulders from getting wet. This one is too long. It bunches up when you bend your arms, and it's quite uncomfortable. This is more of a decorative piece than functional.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[10] = new data("images/collaboration/tl10_l.jpg","<font>&quot;Mini Trade Bottle<br>Red cedar bark warp, yellow cedar weft, two strand twining, black dyed yellow cedar bark, tree shadow design,<br>1 1/4&quot;W., 1/8&quot;H., 1/98.<br><br>&quot;One of the things I love to do is covered bottles. I think they're beautiful. This bottle is an old glass liquor bottle that they used to give you on the airlines. They don't make glass bottles anymore they are all plastic now, so it's very difficult to find the glass ones. All of my things are done with red cedar warp and yellow cedar weft and primarily two strand twine. Three strand twine was used for the design, like this chevron is done over two-over two, it's a skip stitch.&quot;</font>")                                                 
dataTL[11] = new data("images/collaboration/tl11_l.jpg","<font>Mini Trade Bottle Red<br>Cedar bark warp, yellow cedar weft, two strand twining, spiral red dyed design,<br>1 1/8&quot;W. at bottom, 4&quot;H., 1/98.<br>&quot;This bottle was an Old Manhattan cocktail from an airline. Bottle collectors would have a breakdown if they saw me soaking the labels off my little bottles. This one was really old. I like red, so I thought I'd just do a little red spiral design on it.&quot;</font>")                                                 
dataTL[12] = new data("images/collaboration/tl12_l.jpg","<font>Traditional Haida Hat<br>Red cedar bark warp, yellow cedar weft, plaited and twined, three strand ending and head band on inside,<br>15&quot;W., 7&quot;H., 3/98.<br><br>&quot;This is what I primarily do a lot of. It's a traditional Haida dance hat or Haida rain hat. I say dance hat because I sell them mostly to dancers. Dancers order a lot of them. There are a lot of dance groups in the Seattle area; urban Indians looking to reclaim their culture in the city and forming dance groups.<br><br>This hat is plaited and twined. It's three rows of plaited and two rows of twined with a three strand braided ending. It's primarily red and yellow cedar so the plaited is red and the twined is yellow.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[13] = new data("images/collaboration/tl13_l.jpg","<font>Clam Basket<br>Red cedar bark warp, yellow cedar weft, two and three strand twining, fish eye design,<br>15&quot;W., 7&quot;H., 2/98.<br><br>&quot;This is a small traditional clam basket, done with a fish eye design. It's rough on the bottom to drag on the rocks. Clam baskets would normally have a handle on them if they were actually used for gathering clams, but this one is just decorative.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[14] = new data("images/collaboration/tl14_l.jpg","<font>Dance Apron<br>Pounded red cedar bark warp, thigh spun-two strand yellow cedar weft, sea otter fur trim, and deer hoofs,<br>22 1/2&quot;W., 16&quot;H., 2/98.<br><br>&quot;This dance apron needed 600 feet of twine. I had to spin 300 feet of twine before even starting this apron. It's made of pounded red cedar. When I was talking about leaving the cedar, and the natural thickness as you pull the bark off the tree, that's what you need to use for pounded and for boiled material. I take the red cedar and let it dry out.<br><br>Bill Holm taught me how to pound. I watched him pound and then I practiced and practiced. There's a certain 'crack' that you have to hear. If you hit it just right with the pounder it breaks up, and it's nice and soft. It takes quite a lot of practice. I copied his pounding bench and made my own. He helped me finish making a pounder.<br><br>I did not shred the bark string (bottom), it shreds this way after you pound it. It takes about 20 hours just to pound the bark for use in making the apron. So, it's primarily boiled thigh spun yellow cedar, pounded red cedar, braided cedar with sea otter trim and deer toes hanging down. It took me 276 hours to make this.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[15] = new data("images/collaboration/tl15_l.jpg","<font>Women's Basket<br>Red cedar bark warp, yellow cedar weft, in between stitch, raven's hood design on top and three strand ending,<br>7&quot;W., 7 1/8&quot;H., 12/98.<br><br>&quot;This is a women's work basket. It has the raven's hood design on the top. It was used primarily for work; when it ceased to function it was thrown away. Haidas always had to have some form of beauty on their baskets, so that's why the raven's hood design is there. I used the skip stitch because it is supposed to be quick, but this basket took about 60 to 70 hours.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[16] = new data("images/collaboration/tl16_l.jpg","<font>Blue Bottle<br>Red cedar warp, yellow cedar weft, fish eye design, two strand twining,<br>1 1/8&quot;W., 3&quot;H., 1/99.<br><br>&quot;This is a little tiny blue bottle my mother had purchased oil in. It's about three inches high. She asked me, 'You don't want this big ugly thing do you?' So I saved it from the trash to weave on. Everyone loved and wanted this bottle. I only made one but I should have made ten.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[17] = new data("images/collaboration/tl17_l.jpg","<font>Potato Basket<br>Red cedar warp and weft, plaiting, box within a box design, dyed black, simple ending,<br>8 1/3&quot;W., 8&quot;H., 1/99.<br><br>&quot;This is a potato basket. They're traditionally plain with one band of black, but I wanted more so I used the box-within-a-box design. This design is usually done on a 'lay down' mat. It is a traditional design and I just thought it's so beautiful that it deserves to be on more than a mat so I put it on this basket.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[18] = new data("images/collaboration/tl18_l.jpg","<font>Potato basket<br><br>&quot;A close-up of the box-within-a-box design.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[19] = new data("images/collaboration/tl19_l.jpg","<font>Hang Bag<br>Red cedar warp, yellow cedar weft, two strand twine, skip stitch, dyed green, tree shadow design,<br>1 1/4&quot; x 3/4&quot;W., 2&quot;H., 1/99.<br><br>&quot;One of the things I like to do to help me relax before bedtime is to make small 'hang-around-your-neck bags.' This one has a chevron design and it's all twined, but I make them in all variations. When my uncle passed away we had a potlatch for him and I made a bunch of these 'hang- around-your-neck bags' for special people.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[20] = new data("images/collaboration/tl20_l.jpg","<font>Dance Hat<br><br>&quot;This is a dance hat. The top is three strand twine all the way down. Then I use a diagonal self weave design one way and a breaking point (which is three strand twine, two strand twine, three strand twine). I start my diagonal the other way and a three strand braided ending.&quot;</font>")                                                 
dataTL[21] = new data("images/collaboration/tl21_l.jpg","<font>Leggings<br><br>&quot;These are leggings. They are made of thigh spun-two strand red cedar warp, thigh spun-2 strand yellow cedar weft, deer toes, sea otter fur trim, and leather to attach the deer toes.&quot;</font>")                                                 
dataTL[22] = new data("images/collaboration/tl22_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I have a lot of ideas for my community project. One of which would be educating the public about the proper identification of baskets, and to do a talk about the research I did here on cedar clothing, using a slide presentation.<br><br>Also, there are only 16 people in my community who can thigh spin, so I want to have workshops on thigh spinning. I want to also encourage people to bring their children, because like my granddaughter, children pick up new things quicker and easier than adults.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[23] = new data("images/collaboration/tl23_l.jpg","<font>&quot;I liked looking at the objects in the museums. One experience was at the American Museum of Natural History. While looking through their computer for cedar clothing I found a pair of cedar bark mittens I wanted to see. When I went to see them I found a robe. It was rolled up and was the most fabulous robe that I've ever seen.<br><br>I said, 'I'd like to see that' so they opened it up. It still had the fur, and it was done in cedar with natural fiber twine (cedar or nettles). It was the finest twine I'd ever seen and it had purple and white wool on it. It was incredible. I photographed it, and they gave me a print out as well. It had previously been listed as a mat, but they're now going to list it as a robe.<br><br>I liked the architecture of the museums and buildings here, as well as Times Square; because of all the lights at night. I also liked some of the designs I saw in the subway. I plan to make a very fine basket influenced by this experience and incorporate the design that caught my eye in the subway.&quot;</font>")
dataTL[24] = new data("images/collaboration/tl24_l.jpg","<font>&quot;The Artist-in-Residence program was great. I was here 21 days. It was very emotional for me; I got so excited seeing all of those old things. It's like a big adrenaline roller-coaster ride, because I don't have access to these objects -I've seen them, but I've never gotten to touch them.<br><br>Going to the museums here I can't believe it's happening to me: the experience of touching something that's so very beautiful, so fine; that someone made 100 years ago; knowing they just made and sold them for nothing. You just can't get over how exquisite they are. It's been an experience of a lifetime. For me, it was a wonderful and exhausting experience.&quot;</font>")

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