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A young woman with deep brown skin stands in half profile turning her head to meet us with a steady, guarded gaze. Her dark, tightly curled hair frames her face as one hand grips a long carved spear angled behind her shoulder. She wears pale metal bangles stacked on her forearm, vivid bead strands at her neck, and a wide silver, plaque-like chest ornament that glints with tiny rounded forms. At the top left, British artist Joy Adamson labels the sitter as “GUIATU ABAKORA,” and beneath it writes “BANGALI, GARISSA,” anchoring her to a specific place. The final word, “GALLA,” is a historical exonym often used for Oromo peoples. Today, it’s widely understood as outdated and can be experienced as insulting, so it is an archive term rather than a self-chosen identity. That tension between a named person and the categories applied to her sits at the heart of this watercolor. Adamson’s careful attention to adornment can be read as admiration for craft, status, and lived style so the jewelry isn’t decoration so much as biography, carried on the body in metalwork and beadwork. Yet, the written captioning also shows how easily a portrait can slip into ethnographic shorthand. The most human counterweight is Guiatu Abakora herself with her turned shoulders, lifted chin, and direct eye contact suggesting agency … as if she’s deciding how she will be seen, even within someone else’s labeling system to help us ask “Who gets to describe whom, and what changes when we keep the named person at the center?” The artwork is part of Adamson’s series of watercolor portraits of Kenyan communities, made as she traveled in the north and east of the country. The museum record does not publish an exact year of creation although Adamson’s cultural watercolors are generally dated to the 1940s through early 1960s, before her worldwide fame for the memoir “Born Free” about raising and returning a lioness named Elsa to the wild in what is now Kenya, alongside her husband George, a game warden.
“Galla Girl Ornaments (Guiatu Abakora)” by Joy Adamson (Austrian-born British) - Watercolor on paper / c. 1950s - National Museums of Kenya Archives (Nairobi) #WomenInArt #JoyAdamson #FriederikeVictoriaGessner #Adamson #NationalMuseumsOfKenya #art #artText #WomanArtist #WomensArt #WomenPaintingWomen
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This bride is identified by artist Joy Adamson’s own inscription as Njeri Nyagesua Njiri, painted at Sharagu, Kenya, and belongs to a wider mid-20th-century series (now preserved at the National Museums of Kenya) in which Adamson documented Kenya’s communities in ceremonial dress. The painting shows a young Kikuyu woman facing us directly, her rich brown skin illuminated by soft, even light against a muted, hazy background. Her hair is mostly hidden under an elaborate halo of tightly coiled beadwork that flares out from each side of her head like twin crowns with threads of pink, lilac, and pale tones looping in dense rings. Fine painted or scarification marks frame her eyes and brow, echoing the curves of the beads. Her gaze is steady, serious, and slightly downturned, without a smile. Heavy strands of multicolored glass beads layer her chest, anchored by a large pale disc pendant that rests high on her sternum. A warm, brown cloth is draped over one shoulder, leaving the other bare so the textures of skin, paint, and jewellery are clearly visible. Her skin, the beads, and the fabric have been rendered with meticulous, almost botanical attention so that we feel the weight of the necklace, the tightness of the headpiece, and the stillness of her pose. The intricate beadwork and facial markings signal a pivotal life transition: through marriage rites, Njeri moves from girlhood into adult womanhood, gaining new status and responsibilities within Kikuyu society. The coils of beads, the layered necklaces, and the carefully applied cosmetics are not mere decoration but visual language, communicating beauty, maturity, and the honor of her family at the moment of ruracio and wedding celebration. At the same time, the bride’s calm, unsmiling expression resists romantic cliché. She appears thoughtful, self-possessed, and slightly guarded, reminding us that this is an individual with her own history, not simply an ethnographic “type.”
"Kikuyu Bride" by Joy Adamson (Austrian-Kenyan) - Watercolor on paper / c. 1950s - National Museums of Kenya (Nairobi, Kenya) #WomenInArt #JoyAdamson #JoyFriederikeVictoriaGessner #Adamson #NationalMuseumsOfKenya #arte #artText #PortraitofaWoman #art #BlueskyArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #WomanArtist
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4/10 This is all happening as #Ontario faces a massive #labour #shortage.
The province will need 33,000 #health-care #workers and 154,000 #tradespeople in the coming decade, according to #Adamson.
#Healthcare #SkilledTrades
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3/10 The financial impact is stark. Maureen #Adamson of #Colleges #Ontario warns the "steep decline" will cut up to $2.5 billion from Ontario's colleges.
This is on top of the 8,000 jobs and 600 programs already lost from the previous drop in #international #student revenue.
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Why has Musk’s Boring Co. quietly been buying real estate along Las Vegas Loop? Is construction along Boring Co.’s Las Vegas Loop part of Elon Musk’s master plan? Or, as critics say, a gamble...
#Government #Alan #Adamson #Elon #Musk #Nicholas […]
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Why has Musk’s Boring Co. quietly been buying real estate along Las Vegas Loop? Is construction along Boring Co.’s Las Vegas Loop part of Elon Musk’s master plan? Or, as critics say, a gamble...
#Government #Alan #Adamson #Elon #Musk #Nicholas #Irwin #Ray #Delahanty
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Les #brocantes participent souvent a des choses folles!
#simpson ou pas...
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Critical Systems Thinking and The Challenger Sale
Day 24 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking
💡 #Adamson #Dixon #TheChallengerSale can deliver value & help customers recognize unarticulated needs, but having certain feelings about sales & capitalism in general, I find it difficult to look at it objectively.
#complexity
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Critical Systems Thinking and The Challenger Sale
Day 23 of looking at books through the lens of #CriticalSystemsThinking
💡 #Adamson #Dixon #TheChallengerSale recognizes complex market dynamics & proposes moving beyond relationship building & traditional sales approaches, encouraging ongoing learning to refine sales strategy.
#complexity
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A quick sketchy teaser for a small project I'm hoping to set sail with this year...
#publicdomain #comic #svenskatecknare
#egendomliga #deegendomliga #falstafffakir #adamson #illustration
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Go to gamenatin.com/22820 as Adamson closes out the season with a 2-1 win over UE. #uaap #uaapseason87 #strongerbettertogether #uaap2024 #gamenatin #uaapfootball #uaapmensfootball
#adamson soaring falcons
#ueredwarriors
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Adamson Soaring Falcons vs. DLSU Green Archers , UAAP Season 87 Men's Football Round 2
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@uaap.bsky.social #uaapseason87 #adamson #dlsugreenarchers
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