#indigenous beading

Starting to sell some of my stuff on Etsy!!

https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/LittleWillowBeading

Carrie Allison | BEADED BOTANICALS. 2018/19

Beaded Botanicals is a series of seven beaded specimen replicas held by the botany collection of the Museum of Natural History in Halifax, Nova Scotia. These endangered plants of Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) are intricately replicated to honour each plant. Each plant being is under threat due to development within the territory, reducing its habitat and endangering its existence. During a four-month residency held at the museum Allison completed the Beaded Botanical series. Allison’s practice is centered on exploring the natural world by spending time with each specimen and honouring it by beading it. This series explores making as honouring, beading as ceremony, and thinking through western scientific practices vs. Indigenous ways of knowing. The piece is purposely unfinished to symbolize the near extinction of the species in Mi’kma’ki.

-New Season, New Waistbeads-

Teri Greeves | Elk Tooth d’Estrees. 2011

“Gabrielle d’ Estrees was the mistress of King Henry IV of France.  She had a sister, or just perhaps a friend who was like a sister, who traveled through life with her. Towards the end of her days the King gave her his coronation ring and the famous painting of her and her sister in the bathtub, with a servant lady in the background doing chores. Elk Tooth d’Estrees is my indigenized interpretation of this painting.  And of course, the Gabrielle of my piece is holding Indian "gold” an elk tooth.”