Daphne Odjig (1919-2016) was a Canadian Odawa-Potawatomi artist. Her paintings are often characterized as Woodlands Style or Pictographic Style.

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Daphne Odjig (1919-2016) was a Canadian Odawa-Potawatomi artist. Her paintings are often characterized as Woodlands Style or Pictographic Style.
Kanji of the day: 会
会 - Meeting, meet, party, association, interview, join
Kun: あ.う、あ.わせる、あつ.まる On: カイ、エ (Pinyin: huì | hui4, kuài | kuai4 )
Pictographic: Believed to have depicted a lidded container with something in it, representing putting something together.
(会 as it appeared in Oracle bone script ~1250-1000 BC.)
(会 as it appeared in Bronze script during the late Western Zhou dynasty, ~800-700 BC.)
Originally this kanji was written as 會, but it eventually got simplified into 会.
Strokes: 6 Radical: 人 human
Word of the day (day 10)
IM BACK!!!!
I've been very busy creating some new words and phrases!!! To apologize for not posting for so long im sharing how you say "i make a minor trangression" in my language:
Fokow atawlan tawpa fokòe.
(Literally "I break your bag")
N-self VBZ-bag-ADJZ-NEG bag-N N-you
The other version for more serious mistakes will be shared tomorrow along with some more lore!!
Anyways, bags are extremely important to the Windpeople. Commonly made of sewn leather or animal bladder, bags that look vaguely like gourds are widely used as a convenient method for transporting water, food, or any loose, messy things that have to endure long trips.
People commonly bundle up bags in groups of three to offer to the 3 main deities in the pantheon, which led to 3 tied together bags being a religious symbol. (more on this tomorrow)
If you broke one of someone's many bags, it would be considered a bit of a shame, but not anything too serious: they could always just repair the bag again.
But why don't the Windpeople use baskets instead? They have an abundance of flexible, sturdy plant fibers.
Well, baskets are only used for short distance trips from a local oasis, or the markets, to a house nearby. As most of the common class couldn't spare any food, time or money to send their kin on long journeys, these bags meant for trips became obsolete among them.
The higher classes above them (priests, people sponsored by religious organizations, the aristocracy) could use their resources on long pilgrimages. To avoid the sun from evaporating their water and rotting their food, the bags' use was commonplace in the higher classes.
Because of this, the bags slowly became associated with the upper class, and baskets with the lower class, encouraging the use of the bags.
Ty for reading!! so excited for tmrs post.
A sample of the Sui writing system. Logographic and/or pictographic in nature.
Used to write the Sui language, a Tai–Kadai language spoken by the Sui people of Guizhou province in China. The Sui language is written with Chinese characters for everyday writing purposes, while the Sui script is used by shamans for divination purposes. The Sui script is in danger of extinction but efforts are being made to revitalize it (Wikipedia). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Liùjiǎ_Fǎnshū,_Page_3.JPG
🤔 always goes back 2 da Egyptian writing system... #JS . . . #2frochicks #hieroglyphics #emojis #ancient #history #writing #pictographic #instafun
The shape of the thought when you conceal it - - - - - #original #art #drawing #painting #abstract #abstractart #expression #expressive #expressionist #abstractexpressionism #thought #intuition #watercolour #ink #handmade #paper #seawater #artist #artwork #colour #black #white #paint #line #brush #composition #language #letter #shape #pictograph #pictographic #icon #iconography #symbol #meaning #feelings #semiotics #script #lyrics #lyrical #writing #poem #poetry (at St Ives, West Cornwall)
Krista Kim 70, 2016 Digital Pictographic on Pleximuseum 48 x 70 inches
Kanji of the day: 女
女 - Woman, female
Kun: おんな、め On: ジョ、ニョ、ニョウ (Pinyin: nǚ | nu:3, rǔ | ru3)
Pictographic: a woman sitting or squatting.
(女 as it appeared in Oracle bone script ~1250-1000 BC. the box shape is meant to represent breasts. This kanji eventually branched off into two directions, one simplified a single breast to represent women 女, the other taking the whole chest and adding nipples to represent mothers 母)
Strokes: 3 Radical: 女 woman