1. What American Indian makings can teach us about histories of rhetorics
Rhetorical Powwows
What American Indian makings can teach us about histories of rhetorics
Malea Powell
2010

2. Iconic semasiographic systems
Iconic Semasiographic Systems -- a direct graphical relationship between an image and its referent.

3. Conventional semasiographic systems
Conventional Semasiographic Systems -- meaning is indicated by the interrelationship of symbols that are arbitrarily codified.

4. Quipu

5. Quipu
Wampum

6. Wampum
Wampum

7. Things Chitimacha Rivercane Basket (John Darden)
Cherokee Rivercane Basket
(Emma Garrett)

8. Robin is a multimedia artist who works with rivercane, gourds, porcupine quills, moose hair, leather, sweetgrass, trade cloth, silk, glass beads, pains, clay and other sculpting mediums, and precious metals.

9. Robin examines an ancient Southeastern mat in the Smithsonian collections facility in Washington, DC.

10. Robin examines pre-contact Cherokee rivercane baskets at
the NMAI collections facility.

11. Robin’s miniature burden basket was accepted for the 2007 Trail of Tears Art Show sponsored by the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

12. Choctaw Burden Basket

13. The water spider in action

14. Mississippian shell gorget, circa 1600 ACE

16. Kentucky Cane Brake

17. Robin cutting cane
Emmaline cutting cane

18. Robin splitting cane at the Smithsonian Folk Festival, 2006

19. Robin working on mock-up of ancient mat pattern.

21. Scott Shoemaker,
Miami Ribbonwork Artist

22. Bonita Nelson & Robin Scott
at the Miami Powwow, 2010

23. Charles Alexander Eastman

24. Robin’s student --learning by doing