Indigenous Grid
Indigenous Grid, Helen IhediwaExploring traditional patterns, symbols, textiles, and artifacts from cultures around the world and why they were made
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The Maori | The House That Became an Ancestor
Exterior of a wharenui
Meeting an Ancestor
You stand at the edge of the marae.
Between you and the meeting house lies the marae ātea, the open space where visitors pause before entering. You wait. No one walks forward yet.
Then a...
The Maori | Design Intelligence from Aotearoa
Around seven hundred years ago, a fleet of ocean-going canoes left Eastern Polynesia and pointed south.
The people on board were experienced navigators. They read stars, ocean swells, and the flight paths of birds. They had been moving acr...
The Tuareg | Tifinagh: The Alphabet Women Kept Alive
Tifinagh letters are built from geometric elements, dots and lines and curves combined according to an underlying logic. The same letter can be written in any direction and still be read correctly.
A mother sits with her daughter somewhere...
The Tuareg | Silver Jewelry and The Inadan's Fire Spirit
In 1958, the ethnographer Jean Gabus sat with a Tuareg silversmith and asked him to explain his work. The man picked up a pendant he had just finished and pointed to each element on its surface. “Here is the ant,” he said. “Here is the hyen...
The Tuareg | Ehan (Ehel) - Architecture as Women's Ownership
Last week, we looked at the tagelmust, the indigo veil that marks Tuareg men and stains their identity into their skin. This week, we’re studying something that belongs exclusively to women: the tent.
Fifteen women sit in a circle in the s...
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