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The spirit of her great-great-great grandmother Mahota flows
through the contemporary native American designs woven by
Margaret Roach Wheeler, a native American of Chickasaw-Choctaw
descent. In 1844 Mahota moved to Oklahoma with her tribe
and established a prosperous home for her family. “
Mahota” is the label that Roach Wheeler designs under.
Wheeler has merged her fine arts education with her native
American heritage to weave contemporary garments based on
American indian costumes. She has also created “The
Mahotans” a imaginary tribe where each member is adorned
in handwoven robes.
Wheeler states - “My direction, which included painting
and metal sculpting, dramatically changed when my job required
me to teach weaving. Although I had grown up in a household
where fibers were a part of my daily life, I had never considered
this integral to my artistic work. The loom and the act
of weaving however, brought memories not only of my childhood,
but and awareness of my ethnic heritage. Today fibers have
become the paint and the metal wherin I work. I feel that
my training, my heritage, and my artistic ability have found
completion in the act of weaving.”
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Chief's
Robe
Handwoven Silk/Wool
$800
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Mic
Mac Dress
Handwoven Cotton
$600
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Minco
Jacket
Handwoven Silk
$400
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Mahotan
Signature Jacket
Handwoven Tencel
$450
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Ribbonwork
Shirt Topper
Handwoven Tencel
$225
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Mahotan
Signature Jacket
Handwoven Tencel
$450
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Marriage
of the Snow Goose
Handwoven Performance Costumes
$5000
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Mahotan
Spirit Council
We give the peace of protection from the four corners.
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Ancestor
of the Sky
Cotton, grey goose feathers, pottery, peacock feathers,
rabbit fur;
handwoven,
handcast, Spirit guardian of the heavens.
$3,000
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Ancestor
of the Earth
Cotton, curly willow, peacock feathers, buckskin;
handwoven, handcast Spirit guardian of the earth and life.
$3,000
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Ancestor
of the West
Cotton, grey goose feathers, glass beads, leather;
handwoven, handcast Spirit guardian of the thunder and the
rains.
$3,000
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Ancestor
of the East
Cotton, leather, guinea feather, glass beads;
handwoven, handcast Spirit guardian of the land of the morning
sun.
$3,000
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Ancestor of the South
Cotton, leather, bone, feathers; handwoven handcast
Spirit guardian of the power to grow.
$3,000
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Ancestor
of the North
Cotton, snow goose feather; handwoven, handcast
Spirit guardian of the clearing wind and rest.
$3,000
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