In the Valley of Spears Collection
This collection is a decolonized examination and honoring of the fierce resistance towards colonization that Tolima region tribes such as the Pijao and Panche led. The region was called the “Valley of Spears” due to the use of large spears by these groups as part of armed resistance. The Spanish colonizers labeled these groups evil, levied accusations of cannibalism (wikipedia still writes this as a truth), and used these accusations to manufacture consent to destroy them through warfare, burning leaders alive, and kidnapping women knowledge holders. A common tactic used in colonialism to justify horrific genocide.
Archeological evidence shows that the Panche had secondary funerary practices, wherein a certain period after burial or cremation the bones of the dead loved ones were then placed in decorated clay urns with facial markings and accessories like golden septum rings. These clay urns were then placed in sacred underground “masoleums’.’
This specific earring represents the life-giving water, and resistance.
Materials: Seed beads, Gold beads, Gold plated hooks, Gold plated triangles
In the Valley of Spears Collection
This collection is a decolonized examination and honoring of the fierce resistance towards colonization that Tolima region tribes such as the Pijao and Panche led. The region was called the “Valley of Spears” due to the use of large spears by these groups as part of armed resistance. The Spanish colonizers labeled these groups evil, levied accusations of cannibalism (wikipedia still writes this as a truth), and used these accusations to manufacture consent to destroy them through warfare, burning leaders alive, and kidnapping women knowledge holders. A common tactic used in colonialism to justify horrific genocide.
Archeological evidence shows that the Panche had secondary funerary practices, wherein a certain period after burial or cremation the bones of the dead loved ones were then placed in decorated clay urns with facial markings and accessories like golden septum rings. These clay urns were then placed in sacred underground “masoleums’.’
This specific earring represents the life-giving water, and resistance.
Materials: Seed beads, Gold beads, Gold plated hooks, Gold plated triangles
