Visual Arts
Sylvain Rivard
Mskikiawikhigan

Assembly, bark, beeches ash wood, sweetgrass, beads and handmade paper. The book's cover is made of a piece of birchbark. Its edges are made from sweetgrass and white beads. The book's title is engraved with pyrography. The pages are handmade papers, incrusted with plants.
Mskikiawikhigan (Herbarium)
Sylvain Rivard, 2005
Artist's book, 30 x 15"
Assembly, bark, beeches ash wood, sweetgrass, beads and handmade paper
Thumbnail of Danse indienne Thumbnail of La borgnesse Thumbnail of Mskikiawikhigan Thumbnail of Mocassin penobscot Thumbnail of Nisal mjej8kol
Thumbnail of Femme micmac Thumbnail of Le vieux sauvage Thumbnail of Masque Thumbnail of Mocassin seneca Thumbnail of San8ba ta phanem

“An ethno-botanical herbarium based on plants used by the Wabanakiak nations. The pages will be made with recycled paper incrusted with plants such as corn leaves, sunflower petals, pine needles and threeleaf goldthread roots”

Short lexicon on plants and herbs
Mskikiawikhigan, Herbarium

Wz8bamegwad, useful plants: Maskwa, birch, Wlimskiko, sweetgrass, Az8snaskw, cattail, 8gmakw, ash.

Mijow8gan, food plants: Kizosk8gan, sunflower, Mskikwimens, strawberry, Skamon, corn (maize).

Wdam8w8gan, fumigatory plants: Wdam8, tobacco, Mkwakw, red-osier dogwood.

Nbizon, medicinal plants: M8skwaswaskw, sweet flag, Jabak, Labrador tea, Wijowapapk8s, threeleaf goldthread, Skasawan, sage, M8l8dagw, cedar, Koa, white pine.

Majinbizon, poisonous plants: Kaskim8kask, blue flag.

 

This Ethnobiological herbarium follows up on an educational activity in a school on plants Native people used. The students took part in making the paper