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It’s about resilience

Masai,’’ by Brenda Kingery, in her show “Weaving Villages,’’ at the Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit, Mass. (on Cape Cod), through Dec. 19.

Ms. Kingery is a Chicksaw. “Each textile, dance, drum, and song is a living reminder of peoples’ resilience in the face of conflict,’’ she says.

The museum explain that this idea informed her artwork while “she traveled through the Ryukyuan Islands of Japan, Indigenous communities in Mexico and Central America, remote villages in Uganda, and Powwow celebrations in her native Oklahoma.”

Sunrise at Loop’s Beach, Cotuit