Matricultural Patterns (original) (raw)

Matriarchal Studies Day, 2020

Abstract

Recurrent patterns show up on rock art and archaeology, in painted pots, female figurines, megalithic statues. This video looks at the iconography of ancestral women, breastpots, vulva stones, and other sacred signs. Medicine women, shamans, healers, mashkiki-kwe, izangoma. Women as culture-makers; weavers, potters; painted ceramics and mother pots. Images of birth, womanhood initiations and ceremonial and dance, in ancient art from Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, Greece, Italy, and Hopi and Mandan country. We look at invoking women in rock art from Niger, Baja California, Arabia; Namibia, and Zimbabwe; and in artifacts from predynastic Egypt, the Aegean, and China. And finally the iconography of breasts in fountains from Java and Bali, molded and painted reliefs from Germany and Sudan, carved doors from Timor, ceramics from the Nok culture in Nigeria, and the golden breastplates of Colombia, Panama, Transylvania and Maluku. Visual talk presented by Max Dashu at Matriarchal Studies Day, Santa Ana Pueblo NM, Mar 15, 2020. 46 min.

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