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Show Fig. 30 Rocking chair, slat-back. Springdale. Newel K. Crawford. Soft wood, stenciled, rawhide. 1938. H: 83.75 cm. W: 41.25 cm. D: 70 cm. Collection of Lorene Lamb, Orderville. The slat-back tradition stretches back to the beginning of settlement in North America. While East Coast slat-back chairs had seats of rushes or reeds, the most readily available strong material in the West was cowhide. Samuel K. Gifford owned a chair shop in Springdale in the 1880s which manufactured slat-back chairs. Newel Crawford watched others who made such chairs and continued the tradition on his own in the twentieth century-a not uncommon phenomenon in southern Utah. 26 |
