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Mary Jewett Pritchard was born on 17 September, 1905 in Pago Pago, is an artist. Discover Mary Jewett Pritchard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 118 years old?

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Age 119 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 17 September 1905
Birthday 17 September
Birthplace Pago Pago
Date of death Pago Pago
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Nationality American Samoa

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1991

A show honoring Pritchard was held at the Jean P. Haydon Museum in 1991. Examples of her siapo are located in the Bishop Museum and the Denver Art Museum.

1984

Siapo : bark cloth art of Samoa was written by Pritchard and published in 1984 by the American Samoa Council on Arts, Culture and the Humanities; the book shows the processes and products of siapo.

1971

Pritchard began a campaign to save this traditional craft. She continued making siapo mamanu and taught the art to visitors and local schoolchildren. In 1971 she was featured on the PBS program "Artists in America." This exposure led to increased requests to make personal appearances describing the importance of siapo and demonstrating its creation; she traveled widely throughout the Pacific, Asia, and North America sharing her expertise. The South Pacific Commission began marketing siapo in their handicraft catalogues.

1927

Mary's father died when she was eighteen years old, shortly after she had finished her studies at the Kawaiahaʻo Seminary. She decided to stay in Samoa to support her family, taking a job doing clerical work for the government. She resigned from the Public Works Department in 1927, after marrying and becoming pregnant with her first child.

In 1927 Pritchard began a business exporting siapo from other artists to the overseas market, along with other materials such as floor mats and hula skirts. This provided artists with a way to support their families and continue to make traditional crafts. She began learning the craft of creating and decorating siapo mamanu from the artists of Leone in 1929, especially her mentors Tui‘uli Leoso and Kolone Fai‘ivae Leoso. With the outbreak of World War II, export was cut off and the making of siapo was curtailed. After the war, it became impossible for Samoan women to make a living from making traditional handicrafts. Both the cultivation of u‘a (the paper mulberry plant used to create the cloth) and the making of siapo cloth declined through the 1950s and 1960.

1925

Pritchard grew up surrounded by the practice of creating siapo, which was used as clothing, bedding, and in ceremonies, but her active interest in siapo began when she was a young woman. She married Ron Pritchard, from the village of Leone, in 1925. Mary and her husband spent time regularly in Leone, where she watched the women make siapo mamanu, a freehand decoration of siapo cloth.

1905

Mary Jewett Pritchard (September 17, 1905 – June 6, 1992) was an American Samoan textile artist. Pritchard is widely credited with reviving the art of siapo, the Samoan version of tapa, handmade cloth created by pounding the bark of plants.

Mary Rose Jewett was born September 17, 1905 in Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa. Her parents were Felesita Fuga, member of well-known Pago Pago families, and Joseph Jewett, an American construction worker hired to build the main deck in Pago Pago Harbor. Mary attended Catholic Sisters School in Atu'u through the fifth grade, the highest level offered to girls at the time. In 1919 she left home to attend Kawaiahaʻo Seminary for Girls in Honolulu.