Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Dana Claxton’s Headdress

Dana Claxton’s Headdress features portraits of 5 womxn and their personal collections, showing how “the beadworks are cultural belongings, and the womxn are cultural carriers.”, via Colossal

The personal collections of five womxn are featured: Jeneen’s collection of beadwork spans three generations from Old Crow Yukon, with designs that are specific to the Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation; Connie, matriarch of beadwork, adorns her own hand beaded pieces; Shadae mixes it up with hip-hop baseball caps, a Coast Salish woven cedar hat, and her husband’s pow wow/peyote fans; Dee and Dana wear pieces of the same inter-tribal collection made by beaders from the four directions.

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