Using Research to Design Costumes

Margaret Roach Wheeler

Chickasaw weaver and clothing designer Margaret Roach Wheeler describes how she used her research on traditional Chickasaw clothing and jewelry to design costumes for the Chickasaw production, Lowak Shoppala'.

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