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Spindle Whorls

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Division 14 designed their own spindle whorls inspired by Susan Point , a Musqueam artist. The Coast Salish elements are widely represented in her art.

Susan Points art is represented in a variety of ways, materials. Comprised of a small (usually) wooden disk with a pole inserted through the centre, this tool was traditionally used by Coast Salish women to prepare wool that would be woven into garments and ceremonial blankets. Point has drawn upon the spindle whorl to provide a formal structure for her art while combining this motif with a uniquely Salish vocabulary of circles, crescents and curved triangles, elements that distinguish the art of her people from the formline-based art of northern Indigenous peoples. (source: Vancouver Art Gallery)

 

 

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