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Encounter Center offers cornhusk (April 21, 2008) – The Center will offer a cornhusk doll-making activity at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 24. The activity is planned as part of the Center’s Senior Day event. Admission and materials are free; registration is not required. A reception will follow
The event will include a discussion of the history of cornhusk dolls in Native cultures and stories about cornhusk dolls. Kennedy was trained as a historic painter and restoration artist at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vt., where she worked for seven years. Her Native teachers have included Narragansett and Abenaki, Mohawk and Lakota elders. She is of Seneca, Abenaki and Irish descent. The Betty Strong Encounter Center is joined to the Sioux City Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center on the Missouri Riverfront, exit 149 off I-29. It was built and is sustained by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD). For more information, call 712-224-5242.
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Corn was unknown to European immigrants before they met
American Indians who taught them how to grow
the grain. “Indians used all parts of the
corn plant. Nothing was wasted, even the
husks were made into masks, baskets, dolls
and sleeping mats,” says Donna Kennedy who
will lead the activity.