Quilt Making

Season 3 • Episode 10

Chickasaw Culture Keepers

Peggy Immohotichey grew up in a large rural household, in which quilting was less of a hobby and more of a way to provide warmth during the harsh winters. She learned from her grandmother and other elders how to sew the quilts by hand from materials such as flour sacks and old clothes. Now she continues to practice the art of quilting and creates her own beautiful patterns, using wildflowers and other aspects of nature for inspiration. Peggy describes how to form patterns and explains how time-intensive a single quilt can be. Worried that quilting is at risk of becoming a lost art even among the Chickasaws, she is dedicated to passing on the tradition and is in the process of teaching her granddaughter her techniques.

EPISODES

3m 30s

Quilt Making

EPISODES

Pottery

Stickball Sticks

Beading

Regalia

Metalsmithing

Shell Carving

Weaving

Horticulture

Baskets

Traditional Foods

Quilting

Flutes

Beaded Collars

Drum Making

Storytelling

Bow Making

Brent Greenwood Art

Beaded Jewelry

Flint Knapping

Stomp Dancing

Beadwork

Turkey Calls

Traditional Stories: How Day and Night Were Divided

Woodturning

Bead Artisan

Textile Art

Quilt Making

Jewelry

The Legacy of Bow Making

Bead Artistry

Painting

Woven Mats

Metalworking

Photography

Pashofa

Deer Toe Shakers

Stickball Sticks

Shell Carving

Medicine Bags

Natural Dyes

Twinning

Bladesmithing

Fish Nets

Porcupine Quillwork

Pottery Burnishing

Shell Carving

Duck Decoys

Traditional Arrows

Fine Gourd Art

Traditional Flutes

Turtle Pottery

Turtle Shell Shakers

Pucker Toe Moccasins

Chunkey

Tattoos and War Paint

Leggings and Breechcloths

Hide Brain Tanning

River Cane Harvesting, Splitting and Peeling

Stories of Kullihoma

History of Beads