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#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Nehat Ennu Sewet/Basket with #snake design made by a Cahuilla or Kumeyaay Ancestor, San Ysidro, CA, before 1915
Juncus, dyed juncus, deergrass
Seen on display at the Field Museum’s “Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories” exhibition in 2022
“My Univash/teacher, Donna Largo, had this story about a rattlesnake who was bothering the weaver. She kept shooing it away and said, ‘If you don't go away I'll put you in my basket.’ And now look, there you see it.“

composite photo of the basket and the gallery label on display at the museum exhibition on 2022; woven basket with a design of a coiled rattlesnake with tail at center and head at edge / “My Univash/teacher, Donna Largo, had this story about a rattlesnake who was bothering the weaver. She kept shooing it away and said, ‘If you don't go away I'll put you in my basket.’ And now look, there you see it. The snake design became very popular; collectors started requesting it. You can really see the high quality, the craftsmanship of the weavers in these baskets.”

#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Knotted #Rattlesnake
Aztec, Postclassic 1100-1520 CE
Basalt, H 11 1/4 x W 16 in. (28.5 x 40.64 cm)
The Walters Art Museum 29.2 https://art.thewalters.org/object/29.2/
“Snakes were powerful symbols throughout Mesoamerican history, linked with the sky, rain, and agriculture. Aztecs may have seen the snake's shedding of its skin as a metaphor for the cyclical nature of life, death, and rebirth.”
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt

it seems to be #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay, i still have this guy up for offers if u would like to take him home https://inkbunny.net/s/3531512

a digital drawing of a rattlesnake-cat hybrid creature

#RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
Root #Rattlesnake, USA, 1930
carved & painted wood with metal
6 1⁄4 x 23 1⁄8 x 17 in. (15.9 x 58.7 x 43.2 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum 1986.65.321 https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/root-rattlesnake-25162
#FolkArt

For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay :
1. #Rattlesnake
#Aztec , 1200-1520 CE
Rhyolite porphyry
2. #Snake Head
Aztec, 1200-1520 CE
Serpentine (very fitting!)
both on display at Dumbarton Oaks
#IndigenousArt #MesoamericanArt

photo of sculpture on a pedestal display at museum - large coiled rattlesnake

photo of sculpture mounted on display at museums - carved snake head with label: “Rattlesnakes are frequent subjects in Aztec stonework. This carving is one of the most realistic known, and was probably part of a coiled snake sculpture like those on display in this gallery. Throughout Mesoamerica, serpents were strongly associated with the sky and celestial bodies, as well as water and earth.”

For #RattlesnakeAppreciationDay on #TilesOnTuesday :
another of the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Chapman Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor, many featuring PA animals: 374, “Crotalus.” That’s the scientific name for a genus of rattlesnakes, only one of which is native to PA: Crotalus horridus, the Timber Rattlesnake.