Page 6 University Daily Kansan, June 10, 1982
Pioneer quilts displayed
DAVID HENRY Staff Writer
The role women played in recording the movement westward into the American wilderness has long been overlooked.
Although the names of George Catin, Charles Russell and Federic Remington are firmly associated with 58th-century romans, few, if any, women join their ranks.
Recently, however, this oversight has been remedied, spurred on by renewed interest in the arts and crafts created by American pioneer women.
Central to this rediscovered artistic tradition is quiltmaking, the tedious piecing together of fabric scraps into colorful patterns and designs. "Log cabin" quilts are a visual view through Aug. 1 at the Spencer Museum of Art, displays 12 examples of these useful and beautiful objects created by pioneer women.
THE TERM "LOG CABIN" describes one of the many patterns that 80th-century quilts took. This particular pattern is made with narrow strips of fabric, or "logs", arranged on four sides of a small center square, according to Ann Roth, KU graduate student in textile design, who arranged the exhibition. Each block is generally pieced so as to create light and dark
sides. The fascination of Log Cahn quilts lies in the patterns created by arranging these individual blocks into a pattern that matches in an introduction to the exhibit.
Yet the Log Cabin pattern is not merely decorative. The center squares, usually red or yellow, symbolize the chimney extending from the cabin's fireplace, the heart of the pioneer home, according to Roth.
Of the 12 quilts in this exhibit, five were selected from the museum's collection and the others were borrowed from Kansas residents. They demonstrate the wide range of visual effects possible in the Log Cabin pattern. Some of the quilts, such as the "Sunshine and Shadow" quilt from 1900, are traditional compositions of alternating light and dark squares arranged on a grid.
OTHER EXAMPLES, though, are far more lively. An 1850 kusit, for example, contains areas of light and dark that combine and break up along a diagonal, creating patterns that appear to advance and recede in space. A silk and satin quilt, made from fabrics highly textured with a glossy explosion of brightly-colored fabric pieces in an amazing modern-looking composition.
This quilt, with its complex geometric relationships, reflects the immense care that women took to create Log Cabin quilts.
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Investigators are questioning all persons who may have been in Swanson's apartment the night of the murder, Olin said.
"We do not consider an individual to be suspect until our investigation determines that he is worthy of more investigation," Olin said. "Anything beyond that is speculation, and speculation is not what we base our job on."
"IT ISN'T a concrete thing," he said. "Some people who might look good today may not look good tomorrow."
Olin said he thought the investigation was progressing in a positive way.
Swanson, 28, was found shot to death outside of his home at 105 Kentucky St. shortly before midnight on May 31. He had been shot
A quantity of marijuana, which Olin said, could be measured in pounds, was found in his apartment.
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Douglas County District Attorney Mike Malone said yesterday that he may have to subpoena more people in cooperation with the investigation.
The district attorney has already subpoenaed four people for an inquisition.
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If the person does not cooperate after being subpoenaed, Malone said, he will be cited for contempt of court.
"We are not investigating drugs. We are investigating the killing of Mark Swanson," he said.
OLIN SAID that the investigation was focusing its attention on the homicide, not on the drugs.
"We have liberally used the inquisition tool to subpoena different phone records and to interview indi- viduals we were reluctant to talk." Malone said.
Olin said that knowledge could be used in determining the validity of someone's statement, "and/or the accuracy of information told to us."
"That information alone is merely one of the pieces of information that an acquaintance of Swanson has knowledge as part of the crime."
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Former Vice President Walter Mondale will be the featured guest at a fundraising reception in Lawrence Saturday and Tuesday to discuss the need for the U.S. House of Representatives.
"He asked us if we would have him in," Kabeline said. "He is making a lot of appearances around the country now. It's my personal speculation that he's getting ready to enter the 1984 presidential campaign."
MIKE KABERLINE, treasurer of the Slattery for Congress Committee, said Monday's endorsement was not solicited.
The $25-a-p plate reception will be held at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holmide, 200 West Turnpike Access Road.
Mondale will endure Democrats Bill Kostar, candidate for the 4th Congressional District, and Jim Slattery, candidate for the 2nd Congressional District.
Slattery is the Democratic challenger
Slattery, a former state representative from Toppea, will get 90 percent of the proceeds from the reception. The firm will bring firm executive will get 10 percent.
"I'd say the chances are 40-60 in Winn's favor," Kostar said. "After all, he's got a 16-year head start on me."
KABERLINE SAID his candidate would get most of the proceeds because her ordinance originally planned to inquire in only 10 days. We later asked Kostar to get in on it.
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To Mr. Stuckman, who considers financial success ipso facto pro of productivity, our economic system is the embodiment of perfection. Therefore he would probably consider the 16,000 hours spent watching television by the average child between the ages of six and eighteen to be time well spent. According to a recent effort by Elyane Roland of the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, child-development experts agree that the hours spent by the youngest set enduring the offerings of the electronic outhouse inhibit their physical and intellectual development. There also exists a two-year study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health which calls "overwhelming" the evidence that "excessive" violence on television causes aggressive behavior in children.
The Washington-based Association of American Geographers recently issued a 24-page report which called "appallingly low" the level of geographical literacy found in the United States. Theodore Shabad of the New York Times News Service says that "The report ... was prompted in part by recent surveys in American schools and colleges suggesting widespread ignorance among young people about other nations, their languages and their cultures." The report described the skills and tools of geography as essential "for portraying and explaining the world in which we live."
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