“Apsáalooké Madonna & Child”
24”(h)x20”(w)
Acrylic, India Ink, oil pastel, digital painting print on exhibition tag on vintage trade cloth on canvas. (June 2018)

Trade cloth represents so much for Indigenous Peoples, especially for Native Women. So much of our experience for the last couple hundred years relates to those specific items gained via trade or ration. 
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