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About Unsigned and painted circa 1955. A colorful, stylized illustration of a West African man playing an Ashiko drum and wearing a leopardskin loincloth and a flowing headdress with fibrous sleeves. Released in 1955, 'Rhythm of the Jungle' was manufactured by CraftMaster as part of a series called 'New Artist', comprising 12 paint-by-number kits.
Indigo - Indigofera tinctoria Historically, this has been used, as the true Indigo dye, for thousands of years, and it is still used for many purposes, some of which you would not expect. The color can either be intense almost black/blue to the softest powdery blue. Imagine having this ability to use, right in your very own backyard, a beautiful shrub, that can also create the most beautiful dye, and you can sell the leaves for a pretty good profit. How to Make the Dye . . . There has also been extensive research in the US and around the world on the medicinal value of this plant. Regardless of the plant used, there is only one method for converting the leaves into a dye. The indigo color is slowly drawn out of the leaves by composting them in alkaline water. Over 12-18 hours the water turns blue; it is then drained from the leaves and reserved. Indigo is a perennial plant and to keep the plant for more than a year you should harvest only half the leaves at one time, so there are enough left to gain nourishment from the sun. And it needs to be more than a year old to come into bloom and it needs plenty of warmth to flower. The recipe for making the dye is included . . . ----- 25 - SEEDS Please visit our webpage at - www.mizztizzysweedsandseeds.com for a FREE Catalog, Cookbook, and Gardening Journal download
The Maya civilization of the classical period included a variety of city states widespread by the lowland geographical area of this ethnic culture, including Mexico, Belice, Guatemala and Honduras.…
cavefelem submitted: “Staufen Altarpiece”, Upper Rhine c. 1420/30, Augustinermuseum Freiburg/Germany
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Pots filled with dye for making indigo cloth. The color is sourced from indigo plants that grow on the plateau of Dogon country.
As Africans, we are familiar with the experience of Colonial conquest. The Colonial conquest of Native America by the Spanish, British and later newly formed American State represents a significant chapter in the History of Colonialism and resonates quite strongly with the African experience in my view. In the
A natural indigo vat ferments and creates a thick foam above the water. Indigo dye and bogolan workshop held with Aboubakar Fofana in Johannesburg, South Africa
Recently I came across another rare image of Southern New England Algonquins that was taken in 1923 and just included it below the original posting I did on the 1925 image. See Below. _______________________________________________________________________ Original Posting - March 14, 2015 I've been a little behind lately in my blog postings because I've been busy curating a new exhibit on Iroquois and Wabanaki beadwork that will open this spring. More on that in a future posting. I did want to share with you a compelling image that I came across recently. As a portrait artist, I am often drawn (excuse the pun) to powerful images of people from times past and this one certainly fits the bill. It’s one of the more intense group portraits that I have seen in a long time. The inscription on the bottom of the photograph reads: “N. E. Annual Pow-Wow of Algonquin Indians. Providence, R.I. October 14, 1925.” The image was vaguely familiar so I spent some time looking through my library and lo and behold, it was published in 1975 in The Narragansett People by Ethel Boissevain, pages 76 & 77. In Boissevain book the image is captioned: “Concerned Native Americans sustained a council of Eastern Algonkian Indians for several years during the 1920’s. This 1925 photograph shows a group of the Council composed of members of the Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes.” I thought I would share the image with you as some of you might recognize family members. The gaze on the face of many of these people is quite compelling and can cut right through you. I scanned the photo at a high resolution and added many detail shots of the group. If anyone can identify someone I would love to hear from you. The photograph appears to have been taken in the front of a Masonic lodge, most likely in Providence, RI as evidenced by the Square and Compass, the single most universally identifiable symbol of Freemasonry, which is displayed on the wall of the building behind the group. The photographer was L.W. Thurston, 166 Peace Street, Providence, RI. After I posted this two of the individuals depicted were identified as Nipmuck. I added that info below. Two of the individuals in this image have been identified. The woman on the left back row in front of the window is Sarah Cisco Sullivan. She was the Sachem of the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc Indians (now known as the Nipmuc Nation) during most of the 20th century. Her father, Chief Cisco, is standing to the left of her wearing a plains-style headdress which many men wore back then. Thank you Cheryll Toney Holley for this information. Burne Stanley-Peters said that she and Slow Turtle knew Sarah well. They knew her as Zara - Zara Cisco-Brough and she lived in the house on the Hassanamisco Reservation. The individual on the far left of this detail shot is Leroy C. Perry, aka Chief Sachem Ousa Mequin, (Yellow Feather), a Wampanoag. He worked for Rudulf Haffenreffer as an educational interpreter at the King Philip museum in Bristol, RI (now the Haffenreffer Museum). I have several other images of him wearing that same headdress. In one of those images he sits at Metacom's seat, a large quartz outcropping on the grounds of the Haffenreffer Museum. New Posting - July 4, 2017 The following image was discovered recently which depicts some of the same individuals in the image above. It was taken by the same photographer, L. W. Thurston, of Providence, RI although it appears to be in a different location. This image is titled "Council of Algonquin Indians of N.E., Providence, RI, December 13, 1923. The image, like the one above, is 8 x 10 inches. I've included some detail images below the full-size photo so you can better see the details.
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