Global InformationFlorence Shotridge information
Florence Scundoo Shotridge | |
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 Florence Scundoo Shotridge sitting with her Chilkat blanket. | |
| Born | 1882 Haines, Alaska |
| Died | 1917 (aged 34–35) Haines, Alaska |
| Nationality | American, Tlingit |
| Occupation(s) | Ethnographer museum educator weaver |
Florence Scundoo Shotridge (Tlingit, 1882–1917) was an Alaska Native ethnographer, museum educator, and weaver. From 1911 to 1917, she worked for the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (the Penn Museum). In 1905, she demonstrated Chilkat weaving at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon. In 1916, she co-directed with her husband Louis Shotridge (Tlingit, ca. 1882–1937) a collecting expedition to Southeast Alaska that was funded by the retail magnate and Penn Museum trustee John Wanamaker.[1]
In 1913, Florence and Louis Shotridge co-authored an ethnographic article entitled, "Indians of the Northwest" which appeared in the University of Pennsylvania's Museum Journal. In the same issue, Florence Shotridge independently published an article entitled, "The Life of a Chilkat Indian Girl,"[2] in which she discussed both puberty customs for Tlingit girls as they transitioned into womanhood and Tlingit expectations for female behavior.
- ^ Seaton, Elizabeth (2001). "The Native Collector: Louis Shotridge and the Contests of Possession". Ethnography. 2 (1): 35–61. doi:10.1177/14661380122230812. S2CID 145767237.
- ^ Shotridge, Florence (September 1913). "The Life of a Chilkat Indian Girl". The Museum Journal. 4 (3): 101–103.