Museum Visit to See the Delores Churchill and the Hat (Essay Sample)

Delores Churchill and the hat.
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The program I attended was on October 28th that was free entry to all people. The program was majorly through film screening at the Theater at the National Museum of Natural History. Among the attendees were the producer of the film Delores Churchill and the director Ellen Frankenstein. Before the program began, there was the demonstration on what the film could be shown at the Q? rius Education center by weaving some basket and hats. My feeling when I arrived at the event, I was amazed because it was the first time that I was visiting the National Museum of National History. I happened to meet one of my colleague who happen to be attending the same event, in the back of my mind I said it will be a colorful event. In short I was filled with enthusiasm upon arrival at the event.
The two pieces that I identified are a woven basket and hat that was woven by the Haida people more specifically the by Delores Churchill, who was their elder. Long ago the Haida culture, women were the one specifically weaving but the men started the art of weaving and through Daniel Churchill she weaved the hat and basket that were waterproof, and they were so tight that they were used for storing of grains, fetching water and almost all activities for storage.(Simpson, 2009). Delores learned from her mother on how to weave and acquired the knowledge and started weaving as women. Dolores became conversant with weaving and advice men to start weaving as women did. The Haida culture did not allow men to weave implying that Delores weaved the perfect basket and hat was for historical purposes at the National Museum of National History.
The event started at the Q? rius Education Foundation at the National Museum of National History. Where everyone was provided with weaves and Delores Churchill, show us the woven basket and hat that he weaved while he was a youth. (Van Den Brink, 1974). He demonstrated the cultural activity of weaving and even we tried weaving of basket and hat. I weaved a basket and hat that I was allowed to go with it at my home. After we had finished learning, we were invited to q?rius theatre to watch movies which majorly entails the life of Delores Churchill background. The movie starts where Delores is forced to leave her resident to go to school for education. She was not allowed to speak the Haida language or practice her tribal cultural practices, but she preserved them by not being influenced by the education or western cultures. She started to weave as a cultural practice, and we followed the way movie while enjoying the scenery of the movie, as well as the...