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Cicatrization is a scar formation at the site of a healing wound. Scarification, a form of cicatrization, is a permanent form of body modification that affects the texture of the skin by cutting through layers to purposefully create a scar. This process can include a number of techniques, including cutting, scratching, or burning. This was practiced at large globally in pre colonial societies/civilizations and still is in small communities today. 600,000 Africans during slavery, were sent to Guinae(Bissau) down to Angola between 1600 and 1830. During this time period on plantations some Africans would escape in the Amazonian rainforest, where they would be known as maroons and live amongst each other called marronage. The tradition of scarification continued to be practiced in marronage. We can see this amongst the maroons of Suriname and French Guiana, specifically in the Saamaka and Ndyuka tribes.

1 - Maroon woman from Langatabiki, Suriname by Willem van de Poll, 1947

2 - Maroon man from the Cottica region, Suriname by Eugen Klein, 1910

3 - Maroon Fashion History By Sally Price

4 - Maroon woman in Suriname from Ndyuka tribe with ritual scarification (1952), photographer unknown.

5 - Maroons from Suriname by Augusta Curiel, 1911

6 - Aukan woman in Suriname by Augusta Curiel, 1915

7 - Ndyuka artifacts are on permanent display at MPM.

8 - Ndyuka artifacts are on permanent display at MPM.

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Femmage, also know as feminist collage is any artwork done by women by assembling objects, as by collage, photomontage, etc. It was defined by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer as an activity “practiced by women using traditional women's techniques to achieve their art—sewing, piecing, hooking, cutting, appliquéing. Meyer and Schapiro, claimed women/femmes to be the inventors of collage, after it was claimed to created by Picasso or Braque. In design studies it is also debate around why craft is not seen as design, some stating the reasons are sexist/misogynistic. “Femmage” work can be traced back to precolonial Africa and continued in maroon communities post colonization. Some same say maroon communities in Suriname have no weaving tradition, the women have since the nineteenth century, turned store-bought cloth into colorfully deco- rated capes, loincloths, scarves, waist-kerchiefs, neckerchiefs, wrap-skirts, baby bonnets, men’s caps, adolescent girls’ pubic aprons, and men’s dance aprons, as well as hammock sheets, hunting sack covers, and draw-string bags for small items such as shotgun cartridges. Cloth is raised in shrines to the ancestors, flown as banners on funeral canoes, offered as gifts, and used as decoration on coffin”

1:Saamaka Maroon shoulder cape, sewn early-20th century by Peepina (Suriname). Collection of Richard and Sally Price. Photo by Antonia Graeber.

2: Cape owned by future Saamaka Headcaptain Faansisonu (ca. 1905–1989)

Richard & Sally Price Collection,

Schomburg Center for Research in

Black Culture, New York

3: Reverse appliqué, early 1990s Musée des Cultures Guyanaises.

4: Chapter 5 New Lives for Ndyuka Women: “Everything’s Changed but the Men”, date and photographer unknown

5: St.-Laurent-du-Maroni 2013. From left to right: 1,2, and 7 are embroidered, 3 and 6 are painted, 4 and 5 are appliqué’d.

Photo byCécile Duro

6: Cross-stitch embroidery

Steven Alfaisi Facebook ca. 2015

7: source unknown

8: source unknown

9: “Miss Saint-Laurent” contestants 2007 Hatt Eaton

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De natuur is een inspiratie voor creatie. Water en steen maakt de kunstenaar in mij wakker. ♥️🇸🇷🌿 📷: #IPhone7 Previen Manish Sewnath #Bakaaboto #Duwata #Saamaka Bakaaboto-lodge https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw_-DqODVIQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17vd4fzyqpopf

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Klap bangi (c’est un banc pliant) d’inspiration Saamaka réalisé par mes soins en france métropolitaine. Pour se faire, je suis allé dans la fôret abattre un arbre, un robinier faux-acacia, pour en faire un klap bangi à partir d’un tronçon de 80 cm (le reste de l’arbre ayant servi de bois de chauffage). La particularité du klap bangi est qu’il est réalisé dans un seul morceau de bois, ces deux parties sont inséparables.

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Maroon women stamping maripa stones

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The Maroon People: the Saamaka, or Saramakas

Maroons are the descendants of fugitive slaves. During the Dutch colonisation, they fled into the rainforest and established their own communities. The Saamaka Maroons, or Saramakas, are one of these groups and they live in small communities along the upper Suriname River. They live in wooden huts and cook on wood or gas.

Gas cylinders are brought from Paramaribo by boat; there are no roads to Pikin Slee. From Paramaribo it is a three-hour bus ride to Atjoni, from which a korjaal – local wooden boat – takes visitors, produce and wares to numerous villages along the bank. It is an adventurous journey.

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Saramaccan women clad in colorful panyi and kamisa cultural wear tied in complicated knots around their waists and upper bodies, headscarves around their heads, Emancipation Day celebration at Saramacca River village of Santigron,Suriname                                          The Saramaka or Saramacca are one of six Maroon (black slaves who had escaped from slavery and set up independent communities beyond colonists' control) Samaraccan Atlantic Creole-speaking peoples in the Republic of Suriname. The Saramaka people are o­ne of the largest Maroon tribes in Suriname and they were formerly called "Bush Negroes."  In the beginning of mid-2010, the people formerly known as “Saramaka” began calling themselves, in their official documents in English, “Saamaka,” to conform to their own pronunciation. This was after the tribe gain international prominence when they won international right to settle on their indigenous land case against the Republic of Suriname at IACtHR, Saramaka People v Suriname in November 28, 2007.

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Saramaccan Maroons of Suriname performing their traditional dance of African origin.

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Children in Drepada,Suriname.