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September 12, 2007

over my ravens head

This one comes from three sources:
Ravenshead_mask_on_the_coast-center image is a Nuxalk raven mask, mid to late 19th century, and is from an ad for Listening to Our Ancestors:  The Art of Native Life Along the North Pacific Coast, which opened today at the National Museum of the Native American in New York.   I found this ad in the Arts section of the NY Times, and had to use it because of my penchant for images of North Pacific Coast ravens.     

-the waves are drawn but appropriated from Rookwood tiles that depict a scene with the three ships of Columbus (633 from 1000 Tiles)

-and the red heart-like shapes are medieval designs that were used in some mid-fourteenth c. tiles, "printed tiles", from England (212 from 1000 Tiles)


I love making stuff with designs from that tile book!

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