  About the Artwork
  
  
  Wearing clothing created with time-honored artistry and carrying a basketful of sacred sweetgrass, this young person represents the Eastern Woodlands— the ancestral home of the Anishinaabe peoples. The painted floral patterns on the hat, collar, and shawl refer to beadwork on velvet. For this ceramic figure, Jemez Pueblo potter Kathleen Wall collaborated with other artists. Kelly Church wove the basket using techniques passed down through generations of Anishinaabe weavers. Likewise, Wanesia Misquadace made the hair ties using porcupine quillwork as well as bark biting, creating the turtle design on the medallions with her teeth.
  
  
  Title
  Create Our Future - Honor Our Past: Sweetgrass, 2021
  
  
  Artwork Date
  2021
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Kathleen Wall  (Artist)
  Jemez Pueblo, Native American, born 1973
  Kelly Church  (Artist)
  Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi; Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians (Descent), born 1967
  Wanesia Misquadace  (Artist)
  Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, born 1971
  
  
  
  Medium
  Ceramic, slip, birchbark, paint, and sweetgrass
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 28 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (72.4 × 24.1 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Ceramics
  
  
  Department
  Indigenous Americas
  
  
  Credit
  Museum Purchase, Flint Ink Endowment
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  2021.269.2
  
  
  Copyright
  © Kathleen Wall, Wanesia Spry-Misquadace, Kelly Church
