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Spazito

(49,765 posts)
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 03:17 PM Mar 2023

Gitxsan artist blends Indigenous culture and heritage with traditional playing card designs

For years, Gitxsan artist Michelle Stoney has created art inspired by her culture and heritage, including jewelry, drums, graphic design, paintings and murals.

Now, she's released a deck of cards featuring Gitxsan imagery.

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Each suit represents a different clan house.

Many of the face cards, she says, are based on her ancestors, in particular, her grandparents.

"The Queen one is the medicine woman, which actually looks more like my mom," Stoney said.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gitxsan-artist-ingidgenous-culture-1.6782395

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Gitxsan artist blends Indigenous culture and heritage with traditional playing card designs (Original Post) Spazito Mar 2023 OP
Those are really lovely hermetic Mar 2023 #1
I agree, they are beautiful.... Spazito Mar 2023 #2

hermetic

(8,258 posts)
1. Those are really lovely
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 03:52 PM
Mar 2023

If I had the slightest use for playing cards, I'd sure get these. Sadly, I don't.

Spazito

(49,765 posts)
2. I agree, they are beautiful....
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 04:25 PM
Mar 2023

I am seriously thinking about getting a set as a collector's item rather than to use them as, like you, I don't play cards anymore.

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