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themapper — The generations
Published: 2004-09-12 08:46:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 507; Favourites: 11; Downloads: 34
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3 generations of women in my family - my mother, my two sisters, and their kids. The style is NW Coast Indian Art - Gitksan to be more specific. The Gitksan (or Gitxsan) are a tribe (First Nation) in mid-northern British Columbia. Canada.Related content
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Thanks indeed. This is a clip from a much larger piece (could not fit it all on the scanner). Pencil. Got some more on the go, though it is slow right now.
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This is a splendid totem! I look forward to roaming your poetry gallery. I'm no poet myself, but my sister is, so I marvel at the precision and creativity of it.
I know it's nothing very special where I live, but my great grandmother was Cherokee. I thought she was beautiful. She had very fierce eyes.
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Why thank you very much for your kind compliments! And roam at will, as I shall roam through yours and your sisters, now I have discovered you both.
I'd like to have seen your great grandmother, and I think the both of you are also very beautiful, with lovely eyes. I'll bet they can look fierce too.
Take care.
Russ in Canada
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my computer screen cannot do this piece justice because it's too small to view it in its entirety. but from the small icon i can tell is it beautiful. is there a way i can view it smaller?
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If you'd like a smaller version, just let me know. I'd very happily send you a copy any size you like.
xoxo
Russ
i shall try to save it to my little mac. duh.
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Thanks! I owe two copies of a new (as yet unfinished) print in the same mode to two winners of a Kiriban...
This one is part of a much larger pencil drawing too big to fit onto any kind of scanner I can find locally. Had to zero out stuff beyond the border, but hey, technology doe what it does, right?
Thank you so much for stopping by!
RC
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Ah, what were the dimensions of the original image?
And you're welcome.
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It is fully 3 feet (almost 1 meter) across. There's more layers to its structure ... It's meant to be in all, a wooden shield design (ceremonial) ... Thanks for your interest in this pic. I'm doing more soon (this month) in this mode ...
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Ah, wow. Must have taken a lot of work.
My pleasure. I'll put you on my watch.
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Yes, it did! Although this piece is cropped to about 1/4 of the full piece, which took around 90 hours total. Thanks for the watch and the comments! I plan to domore in this genre this spring and summer.
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Thank you very much! When my work slows down (May), I hope to do more in this genre. Maybe a lot more.
Russ
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i guess i better be watching then
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Let me help fatten up that favorites number. Great work on this. I love the design and the care you took in building the details and shading. Just beautiful.
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O hey, wow, thanks! I greatly appreciate that.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope to have more of this genre out soon.
Russell
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Very beautiful piece of work, and certainly an honor to your ancestors.
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Thanks! 'Preciate your stopping by to have a look. I'd originally had you in my DevWatch lists, but lost everything in one night of clumsiness (new to DA). And glad I have re-discovered you and your work. I'll be back to visit your gallery again in the days to come.
Best,
Russell Collier
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Thanks for the fave 
Pleased you had a look at it - this is one part of the much larger whole, which was too big to scan.
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Ah. Figured I'd err on the side of guessing the grandest bird first. 
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Wow. Amazing. The face of the greater eagle would be your mother then, with the two smaller eagles your sisters? (Are you the upside-down eagle/beak?) And the kids are "all over the place" as kids will be. And then back to seeing everything as part of the greater eagle/mother. I wish I had more background in Gitksan art to understand this fully. But I'll still give it a fave, I will.
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