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How Ethnographic Drawing Works I’ve been drawing as a means of knowing and understanding the world since I was first able to hold a crayon. I filled my school notebooks with sketches of teachers and fellow students within the space we shared. I’ve discovered sketching for research teams to be a natural transition. 

I had the honour of joining Social Innovation Team at Georgian College as a Fellow, mainly as an ethnographic artist. I’ve been drawing to understanding the world since I was able to hold a crayon. It's a natural transition. #ResearchArt #ArtistLife #Artist #Fellowship #EthnographicArt #Sketching

The Lobi belong to an ethnic group that originated in what is today Ghana. Starting around 1770, many Lobi peoples migrated into southern Burkina Faso and later into Côte d'Ivoire. The group consists of a little over a 1,000,000 people. They make up about 2.4 percent of the Burkina Faso population. The exact percentage of Lobis in Ghana and Ivory Coast is hard to quantify since they are often counted as part of larger groups like the Mole-Dagon of Ghana. Estimates however point to around 250,000 Lobis in both of these countries.[1] [The Lobi people speak two main languages, which are the Miiwo and Birifor. Miiwo is widely spoken in Burkina Faso and Cote d'Ivoire while a majority of Lobis in Ghana speak Birifor. Oftentimes, people use the language Birifor interchangeably with Lobi, especially in Ghana. Lobi altar vessels, particularly those with spiky decorations, hold significance in Lobi culture as sacred containers for medicines, spirits, and water. They are used on altars dedicated to protective spirits (thil) and are believed to provide protection against misfortune, illness, and witchcraft. The spikes symbolize both protection and the hope for fertility.

Altar Vessel
terracotta
1900-1925 CE
Lobi people
Burkina Faso
Northern Africa and the Sahel

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The Inupiat are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States border. Iñupiaq is spoken throughout much of northern Alaska and is closely related to the Canadian Inuit dialects and the Greenlandic dialects, which may collectively be called "Inuit" or Eastern Eskimo, distinct from Yupik or Western Eskimo. These are the people of the ice as much as the land, and much of their life and culture revolves around the sea ice. Subsistence, or traditional hunting and gathering practices, provide a large part of their diet to this day. The Iñupiat hunt both marine and land mammals, and also birds. They fish and gather berries in season. Most of the communities in the northern and northwest Arctic region can only be flown to, but some are occasionally accessed by boat. There is no road system that connects them all, which is true for much of Alaska. During the winter, some of the communities can be reached by snowmobile. Utqiaġvik (formerlly Barrow) is one of the largest Iñupiaq settlements in Alaska and is the northernmost community in the United States. The Nalukataq whaling festival is held in Utqiaġvik in June following a successful whaling season. The purpose of the festival is to appease the spirits of deceased whales so that they will return in the form of new whales the next season. In addition to dancing, singing, and food, the whaling festival includes a tradition familiar to some visitors — the blanket toss. While it's now conducted as entertainment, it didn’t originate that way. An Iñupiaq hunter would be tossed in the air, enabling him to see across the horizon to hunt game. During today's celebrations, thirty or more Iñupiaq gather in a circle, holding the edges of a large skin made from walrus hides, and toss someone into the air as high as possible.

Shaman's mask
carved wood
circa 1900
Inupiaq
Point Hope, Alaska

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The "chikwanga" mask, specifically known as "Bwadi bwa Chikwanga," is a unique helmet mask of the Luntu people, characterized by carved ram's horns and associated with sorcery, with its production and use shrouded in secrecy. The Bakwa Luntu are a people from the Central Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, part of the historic Kingdom of Luba, and are known for their traditional queen, Diambi Kabatusuila, who is also a philanthropist and environmental activist. The Bakwa Luntu are part of the Luba people, one of the largest ethnic groups in the Congo, and reside in the Central Kasai region, which is part of the ancient Luba Empire. Diambi Kabatusuila Tshiyoyo Muata is the traditional queen of the Bakwa Luntu, holding the title "Mukalenga Mukaji wa Nkashama wa Bakwa Luntu wa Baluba wa Kasaï wa Congo" which translates to "Woman King of the Order of the Leopard of the Bakwa Luntu People who are from the Luba group of Kasaï in the Democratic Republic of Congo". Before becoming queen, Diambi Kabatusuila was a therapist living in Boca Raton, Florida, who had a recurring dream about an old woman in an African village, which sparked her interest in her ancestors. She was crowned as the traditional queen of the Bena Tshiyamba People of Bakwa Indu in 2016 and enthroned by the Bakwa Luntu Chiefs in 2017. Queen Diambi is a philanthropist and environmental activist, involved in numerous organizations, and founded The Elikia Hope Foundation, which provides water, medical resources, and education to homeless children in Kinshasa. She was crowned Queen Mother of the Bantu People of Brazil in 2019 and received the Tiradentes Medal, the highest honor from Parliament in Brazil. Queen Diambi is also a proponent of Pan-Africanism and has spoken about changing the development paradigm and the importance of education.

Helmet mask
"chikwanga"
carved wood
D. R. Kongo, Bakwa-Luntu / Luluwa
(Bena-Lulua)

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Malagan ceremonies are a means by which whole communities can express their reverence for the deceased. It is not a time of grief but a festival for honouring the dead. Malagan carvings are owned by particular clans and are made for ceremonies by specially commissioned carvers. The "ges" mask, a specific type of Malagan mask, represents the spiritual double or "bush spirit" of an individual, particularly the deceased, and refers to a type of mask used in the Malagan ceremonies of Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, that represents the spiritual double of an individual, often a deceased ancestor, and is used to honor the dead and ward off malevolent spirits.

Rare ges mask for
malagan ceremonies
wood, pigment, shell, fibers
19th century
Papua New Guinea - Bismarck
Archipelago - New Ireland

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The Kingdom of Nicoya (from Nahuatl: Nekok Yaotl), also called Cacicazgo or Lordship of Nicoya, was an indigenous nation that comprised much of the territory of the current Guanacaste Province, in the North Pacific of Costa Rica. Its political, economic and religious center was the city of Nicoya, located on the peninsula of the same name, which depends on several provinces located on both banks of the Gulf of Nicoya, as well as numerous tributary villages. In the 16th century, prior to the arrival of Europeans, Nicoya was the most important chiefdom of the North Pacific of present-day Costa Rica. This necklace is composed of different sizes of carved green jade beads, with a large bar-shaped light green jade pendant at center front. Costa Rica, a tropical country of environmental and biological diversity, is located between Nicaragua to the north and Panama to the south in lower Central America. With Mesoamerica, Costa Rica is one of the two regions in which jade was extensively carved in Precolumbian times. The earliest known carved jade jewelry from this culture is from about 100 BCE, and they continued to carved jade extensively until about 700 CE, when the culture moved away from jade to a preference for gold ornaments.

Beaded Necklace with Bar Pendant
jade
300–700 CE
Nicoya
Guanacaste province, Costa Rica

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Inuit art, also known as Eskimo art, encompasses the artwork produced by the Inuit people of the Arctic, traditionally featuring carvings, prints, and sculptures, often depicting wildlife, cultural practices, and spiritual beliefs. For more information and examples of Inuit art... https://www.inuitartfoundation.org

Mask
driftwood and pigments
Early 20th century
Inuit peoples
Greenland

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An indigenous mask. Red beaded plates with black horse main or tail hanging down and white with black feathers sticking up out of brass forehead piece.

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Ceremonial Headress Mark Johnson
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Men’s Ceremonial Headress. Courtesy Mark Johnson Tribal

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