{"id":440,"date":"2014-05-18T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/18\/a-wondrous-prehistoric-net-2\/"},"modified":"2014-05-18T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T19:47:00","slug":"a-wondrous-prehistoric-net-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/a-wondrous-prehistoric-net-2.html","title":{"rendered":"A Wondrous Prehistoric Net"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\nA Short Historical Trip<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAs an historian I take short trips back through time nearly
\nevery day.  But 2 weeks ago my family
\nand I took a brief trip back into New Mexico history.  A very good friend, Dr. Enid Margolies , had learned that my
\nhusband\u2019s daughter, Hillary, was visiting and invited her to a tour of the
\npermanent collection at the Indian Arts and Culture Museum.  Enid is so very knowledgeable about the
\nmuseum and its collections that I gladly accepted the invitation for all of us.\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n(Note to all of you: if you are asked to join a museum
\ndocent tour, regardless of the museum, do it! 
\nDocents add immeasurable knowledge to any museum visit.  You may think of yourself as an expert but
\nyou will be commenting \u201cI never knew that\u201d within the first minutes of your
\ntour.)<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nBut back to our private tour.  The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is part of the New Mexico
\nMuseum Foundation and is located on what is known as \u201cMuseum Hill\u201d, a short bus
\nride from Santa Fe Plaza.  They have, as
\ncould well be expected, a large, impressive collection which includes many
\ntextiles. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nBut one of my favorites is a large hunting net.  I have spoken about this particular textile
\nseveral times in lectures.   Kate Peck
\nKent (1914-1987),  a professor of
\nanthropology, wrote in Prehistoric Textiles of the Southwest<\/u>   \u201d in 1960 archeologists working in a cave
\nin southern NM found a prehistoric hunting net that measured 150 feet long and
\n5 feet high\u2026.1.54 miles of cordage, made entirely of human hair and over 19,000
\nindividual knots, weighing 7.25#.  To
\ncreate a net of this kind required more than 65 full heads of hair.\u201d   I would imagine not many museum-goers would
\nguess the fiber of that net.  The net
\nhad never been used and there is some speculation as to the reason it had been
\nstored in the cave.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nHumans have been looping and knotting threads since
\nprehistoric times.  Linen nets over
\n10,000 years old have been unearthed in what is now Switzerland and excavations
\nin other parts of the world have revealed bags, fish nets, hunting snares and
\nmesh garments.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nNets were believed to have the power both to protect and
\ncure and, conversely, to pursue and devour. \n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

\nIf you are in the Santa Fe area a visit to the museums of
\nthe New Mexico Museum Foundation is a must.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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