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LOGGER'S SHEET 

LOGGER: Cal Southworth
REEL NUMBER: 1 side B
STAGE: Cultural Conservation Narrative
DATE: 6/26/86
PRESENTOR: Charles Briggs, David Brose
GROUP NAME: Colorado weavers 
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CONTENTS

1. weaving & carving - conservation, Charles Briggs intro, the Lopez'
2. talk about problem finding market for selling carvings & weavings
3. What its like dealing w/ tourists of dif. ethnic backgrounds
4. how it is to sell images of catholic saints who are holy. God has to inspire you to carve a saint
5. 4 generations of weavers, oldest is 88 and has 10 children, 65
6. grandchildren, 96 great-grandkids & 3 great-great-grandkids
7. the younger generations expand on the older traditions (weaving)
8. carvers made saints (new mexico) because couldn't bring enough from Mexico
9. carve all by hand. sand down [[strikethrough]]take[[/strikethrough]]use pin knife for decoration.
10. 19th cent. carvers used paint to decorate. [[strikethrough]]?[[/strikethrough]] now don't
11. never been a time when weaving was not being done. navajo & hispanic were weavers
12. carving: must carve with the grain
13. In 19th cent. carving waned a bit.
Eppie Archiletta & ______ were Heritage Award winners.
Eppie & her mom have had a great influence on weaving. 
carving is an important expression of Hispanic heritage.
one weaver has 4 kinds in college & put them there thru selling weaving (& the kids work weave)