The best possible #IndigenousMutualAid you can practice is to buy genuine Native/Indigenous Beadwork, Art, Jewelry, Books etc. direct from the artist/creative regularly.

Not only are you helping people survive immediately, but you are helping their future and getting great creative works!

#Beadwork #IndigenousCreatives #NativeArt #IndigenousArt #Jewelry #Bookstodon #Native #Indigenous #NDN #LandBack #InstanceBack #TurtleIslandSocial #TurtleIslandArt #TurtleIslandBlog

Episode 2 of the Dáiddadállu Podcast: "Art is our knife?"

Beaska Niillas invites Juno Berthelsen, Qivioq Løvstrøm and Stina Aletta Aikio to an exploration of the knife metaphor in regards to #IndigenousArt.

Listen in as they discuss the different levels of how #IndigenousActivism might relate to our artists and #art In other words; is art as our knife a weapon or can it also be a tool?

https://www.daiddadallu.com/episode-2-art-is-our-knife/

#Sápmi #Sámi #Inuit #KalaalitNunaat #IndigenousPolitics #Indigenous

Episode 1 of the Dáiddadállu Podcast: "What makes #Indigenous artists tick?"

Dine Arnannguaq Fenger Lynge talks with Beaska Niillas, Juno Berthelsen, Qivioq Løvstrøm and Stina Aletta Aikio.

With backgrounds ranging from the Deatnu riverside to Nuuk in Greenland and #IndigenousPolitics to spacial arts, Beaska, Berthelsen, Løvstrøm and Aikio, open up about what has driven them to their professions.

#IndigenousArt #Sápmi #Sámi #KalaallitNunaat #Inuit

Another ten days to see this fabulous exhibition at Bunjil Place Gallery. Sisters Nici and Zena Cumpston brought together a group of #Barkandji arts on #Country. https://www.ngaratya.com.au/
Touring to Broken Hill and beyond in 2024. #MurrayDarlingBasin #MDBP #rivers #IndigenousArt #IndigenousKnowledge #Indigenous #plants #Baaka #Barka #DarlingRiver #environment

A pretty in pink #TwoForTuesday from
the Harvard Peabody Museum collection:

1. Fetish frog
Yaqui culture, Sonora, Mexico
rhodochrosite w/ turquoise eyes
2.5x5.7x5.9cm
https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/599446

2 Fetish standing bear
Zuñi culture, New Mexico, USA
rhodochrosite w/ turquoise eyes & necklace
7x3.3x3.2cm
https://collections.peabody.harvard.edu/objects/details/599389

#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #MesoamericanArt

For #TextileTuesday, here's a fun find while gathering up examples of #frogs in Pacific NW Coast art for an upcoming presentation:
Fringed white leather bag w/ double drawstring closure & beadwork
#Tlingit, Haines, Alaska
Yale Peabody Museum YPM ANT 209513:
https://collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Record/YPM-ANT-209513
#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt

Food Bowl: #FrigateBird with #Shark
Melanesian, Solomon Islands, 20th c.
Wood w/ inlaid mother-of-pearl, 8 7/8 x 9 1/4 x 28 1/4 in. (22.54 x 23.5 x 71.8cm)
Seattle Art Museum 65.24: https://art.seattleartmuseum.org/objects/10813/food-bowl-frigate-bird-with-shark
#IndigenousArt #MelanesianArt #BirdsInArt

Kwak'Wanigaml (#Heron Headdress), c. 1890
Herbert Johnson - (Gayusdisa'las) Kwakwaka'wakw, Kwikwasutinexw, Kingcome, d. 1953
Red cedar, nails, paint, 26 x 13 1/2 x 17 in.
Seattle Art Museum 91.1.31: https://art.seattleartmuseum.org/objects/5317/kwakwanigaml-heron-headdress
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt #BirdsInArt

For when #OwlAwarenessDay falls on #FrogFriday (and #FabricFriday):
Button blanket with #owls & #frogs
c. late 19th - early 20th c.
Gitxsan culture (British Columbia, Canada)
wool, cotton, shell, graphite
130 cm x 188.5 cm
UBC Museum of Anthropology 3051/7: http://collection-online.moa.ubc.ca/search/item?keywords=Gitxsan+button+blanket&row=0

#IndigenousArt #FirstNationsArt #NativeAmericanArt

#Woodensday:
#Beaver-Shaped Bowl, c. 1890–1920
Native North America, NW Coast, Alaska, Tlingit?
Wood, 11.3 x 27 x 18.7 cm (4 7/16 x 10 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art 2009.434: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.434
#NativeAmericanArt #FirstNationsArt #IndigenousArt

#TwoForTuesday:

Ceramic stirrup-spout bottles in the form of a #duck and a #feline (ID’d here as a puma)
c. 1100-1400 CE
Chimú culture, North coast of Peru
Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian display

This type of grey-black ceramic was a signature Chimú style.

#IndigenousArt #PeruvianArt #AndeanArt

For #SharkWeek 🦈:
Two #Shark Pendants
#Chiriquí culture (Panama / Costa Rica), 11th-16th c.
Cast gold alloy
Metropolitan Museum of Art NY display
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313247
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/307789
#IndigenousArt #CentralAmericanArt

#Caturday:
Wari artist, Peru
#Feline Bottle
600-900CE
Ceramic, slip
on display @ the Met
“Coastal artists developed a hybrid style, combining imperial Wari iconography w/ local pottery traditions. This bottle features a modeled feline head, characteristic of the highlands, w/ the colorful slip style developed on the coast by earlier Nasca potters. Painted on the flask-like body of the vessel, the feline's claws grasp another animal, perhaps a reference to imperial reach & power.”
#IndigenousArt

#Caturday:
Chimú artist(s), Peru
Stirrup-spout bottle with #feline
1100-1470 CE
Ceramic
on display at the Met
“Grey-black ceramics became the signature ware of the Chimú. Even though this stirrup-spout bottle was created some 2,000 years after the earliest Cupisnique vessels, its feline shape attests to the enduring traditions in ancient Peruvian ceramics.”
#IndigenousArt #AndeanArt

#FrogFriday / #FrogsForFriday:
Botanical #Frog
#Moche, 100-800 CE
Ceramic, 27.5x17x21cm
Part of the “Garden Nature in the Medieval World” exhibition at Dumbarton Oaks (PC.B.596)
“This supernatural creature, known as the Botanical Frog, combines frog, feline, and plant attributes.“
#IndigenousArt #AndeanArt

Spondylus shell pendant
Chimú, 900-1470 CE
Shell & turquoise
Dumbarton Oaks display
“According to 16th c. documents, Spondylus shell was considered more valuable than gold or silver in the pre-Columbian Andes. Found in the warm waters off the coast of Ecuador, the bivalve was closely associated with concepts of fertility.”
“This pendant was crafted from S. princeps valve with inlays of S. calcifer and turquoise to create a design of coastal birds devouring their prey.”
#BirdsInArt #IndigenousArt

#TwoForTuesday on #TextileTuesday:
San Blas Islands (Guna Yala comarca), Guna, Panama - 20th century
Machine-woven plain-weave cotton cloth w/ appliqué & embroidery
On display at GW Textile Museum’s new animal-themed textiles exhibit.
#IndigenousArt #PanamanianArt

For #OwlishMonday:
polychrome ceramic #owl pot
Mongollon, Casas Grandes
(Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico)
1150-1400 CE
18 cm h., 14 cm. dia.
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian collection 11/9883
#MesoamericanArt #IndigenousArt

#WorldSnakeDay:
Wari painted polychrome ceramic vessel in the form of a snake, c. 800-1000 CE, Chancay Valley, Peru
“A sacred animal, the snake is symbolically linked with water and fertility.”
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian collection
#IndigenousArt

For #GuineaPigAppreciationDay, here are two Chimú polychrome effigy vessels in the form of guinea pigs, North Coast Peru, 1100-1400 CE, now in the Museo de América collection. Both feature split-color black and white faces so I am posting three views of each. Here is the second one (10297):
https://ceres.mcu.es/pages/Viewer?accion=4&Museo=MAM&AMuseo=MAM&Ninv=10297&txt_id_imagen=7&txt_rotar=0&txt_contraste=0
#IndigenousArt