Featured Painting
This is a painting of Native American people in a village going about their business. They are working, playing, chilling out, getting spiritual, and just doing what they do.
People of the Six Nations (Iroquois) will hopefully recognize this as a painting about them. They'll see the long house and know it's Iroquois. Then they'll see the mountains with the river valley and know it's their traditional homeland. The birch trees place it as well.
Everything in this painting has a meaning and each tribe of the Six Nations is represented.
Clockwise, starting with the Mohawk on the right hand side of the painting.
Mohawk, People of the Flint, keepers of the Eastern door, with head dress of three raised feathers, are chilling out over on the East side of the river. He's working on his arrows.
Tuscarora, with the cool head dress of lots and lots of feathers, are the People of the Hemp Shirt, and are over at the corn field. I made it corn because corn is so important and corn soup is delicious! Corn is drying on the rack beside them.
Cayuga, People of the Swamp, are the keepers of the pipe with one feather down on their head dress. They are at the bottom center. He has a pipe and she has a leaf of tobacco.
Oneida, People of the Standing Rocks, with head dress of two feathers up and one down, have turned into rocks as tradition says.
Seneca, People of the hills, and keepers of the Western door are emerging from the water fall as tradition says. They have one feather up on their head dresses. He's playing a flute, representing a man romancing a woman. We all need love.
Onondaga are in the center by the long house. They are the keepers of the fire and have one feather up, one feather down.
Near the Seneca are two people preparing to enter a sweat lodge. One has sweet grass in his hand, the other has a rattle.
There is also a drummer who is teaching a youngster. The drums are, of course, very important and so is the tradition of older teaching younger.
And then, in the open field, are Lacrosse players. There must, of course, be Lacrosse.
People of the Six Nations (Iroquois) will hopefully recognize this as a painting about them. They'll see the long house and know it's Iroquois. Then they'll see the mountains with the river valley and know it's their traditional homeland. The birch trees place it as well.
Everything in this painting has a meaning and each tribe of the Six Nations is represented.
Clockwise, starting with the Mohawk on the right hand side of the painting.
Mohawk, People of the Flint, keepers of the Eastern door, with head dress of three raised feathers, are chilling out over on the East side of the river. He's working on his arrows.
Tuscarora, with the cool head dress of lots and lots of feathers, are the People of the Hemp Shirt, and are over at the corn field. I made it corn because corn is so important and corn soup is delicious! Corn is drying on the rack beside them.
Cayuga, People of the Swamp, are the keepers of the pipe with one feather down on their head dress. They are at the bottom center. He has a pipe and she has a leaf of tobacco.
Oneida, People of the Standing Rocks, with head dress of two feathers up and one down, have turned into rocks as tradition says.
Seneca, People of the hills, and keepers of the Western door are emerging from the water fall as tradition says. They have one feather up on their head dresses. He's playing a flute, representing a man romancing a woman. We all need love.
Onondaga are in the center by the long house. They are the keepers of the fire and have one feather up, one feather down.
Near the Seneca are two people preparing to enter a sweat lodge. One has sweet grass in his hand, the other has a rattle.
There is also a drummer who is teaching a youngster. The drums are, of course, very important and so is the tradition of older teaching younger.
And then, in the open field, are Lacrosse players. There must, of course, be Lacrosse.