This is a stupid problem to have
Mar. 27th, 2011 02:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakSo. 927 words out of a required 1k. (No I am not counting the citations page. That would be wrong.)
To get the remaining less than a hundred words, I'm trying to flesh out a paragraph about an art piece that shows a horse adorned with eagle feathers.
I know perfectly well eagle feathers are sacred to many tribes. The books I have also refer to them as 'sacred eagle feathers' multiple times, as does the exhibit website. The books mention eagle feathers, without the adjective 'sacred', in paragraphs describing dances and such.
What neither they nor the NMAI website do is say specifically 'Eagle feathers are sacred to Native peoples and here is why". I kinda need that. :;face-palm::
Googling variations on 'eagle feathers' or 'sacred eagle feathers' mostly just gets me websites that don't seem suited to an academic paper, or websites that are on the scientific aspects of eagles. Joy.
I'm decamping to bed for now and doing more google-fu in the morning/afternoon.
Ha! Just remembered. I have a few texts on Native subjects from my Ethnic Studies classes back at UWM in our personal library still. I'll check those out. If they fail me, I shall be despondent indeed.
To get the remaining less than a hundred words, I'm trying to flesh out a paragraph about an art piece that shows a horse adorned with eagle feathers.
I know perfectly well eagle feathers are sacred to many tribes. The books I have also refer to them as 'sacred eagle feathers' multiple times, as does the exhibit website. The books mention eagle feathers, without the adjective 'sacred', in paragraphs describing dances and such.
What neither they nor the NMAI website do is say specifically 'Eagle feathers are sacred to Native peoples and here is why". I kinda need that. :;face-palm::
Googling variations on 'eagle feathers' or 'sacred eagle feathers' mostly just gets me websites that don't seem suited to an academic paper, or websites that are on the scientific aspects of eagles. Joy.
I'm decamping to bed for now and doing more google-fu in the morning/afternoon.
Ha! Just remembered. I have a few texts on Native subjects from my Ethnic Studies classes back at UWM in our personal library still. I'll check those out. If they fail me, I shall be despondent indeed.
