If you want just one (of many) valid reasons to hate how the Disney company handled the story of Pocahontas, know this:
When Pocahontas was kidnapped, she fell into a deep depression after enduring mental, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her captors.
She was in such poor condition that her captors thought she was going to die, so they allowed her sister Mattachanna and brother-in-law Uttamattamakin to come to Jamestown to take care of her and nurse her back to health. This is when she confided to her sister that she had been raped several times (by more than one person) and believed she was pregnant. Mattachanna and Uttamattamakin were also with her when they sailed to London and were the ones who had to tell her father of her death (possible murder).
Pocahontas and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World leave out Mattachanna entirely, but this is how they chose to depict Uttamattamakin:
Disney knew enough about this man to actually add him in a film and call him by his name (which also becomes a running joke because everybody fucks it up throughout the film), and THIS is how they portray him.
If that doesn’t make you sick to your stomach I really don’t know what will.
this. this is why I’m pissed, this shit right here. It makes me so unbelievably angry and makes me cry. I’m so sorry matoaka, so sorry they romanticized your abuse and your captors. I’m so sorry all the white girls dress up as you and defend there reasoning by saying “she’s just a disney Princess” you weren’t just a disney princess and I won’t let you be. you were a scared twelve year old child who went through things no child should ever have to go through. I will not let you be reduced to a bastardized fairytale. your real story will be heard and will not be ignored.
I visited the @lacma and loved the Art of the Americas exhibit, so I decided to make some character designs based on the statues and artwork I saw there.
What I like about artwork like this is that, at some point a person had to inspire this. Maybe these statues was the artists friend or sibling. Maybe the statues serve as a formal portrait, or a caricature. Little bits of life, from almost 2000 years ago.
Please ignore my inconsistencies in design I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go super cartoony or more realistic
While these are wonderful, I would like to point out that nose rings and earrings would have been shell, not gold. The shaft tomb peoples did not possess metalworking. They also would not have had turquoise or jadeite as they did not really participate in larger trade networks (there is some jadeite, but it’s very rare).
Thank you for the added information @tlatollotl! Are there more resources where I can learn more about this time period and people?
@artofhitjim I recommend the following books that should be easy to obtain from your library or for purchase.
Beekman, Christopher Stockard, and Robert B. Pickering, eds. Shaft Tombs and Figures in West Mexican Society: A Reassessment. Gilcrease Museum/Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, 2016.
Butterwick, Kristi. “Heritage of Power: Ancient Sculpture From West Mexico: The Andrall E.” Pearsson Family Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2004).
Townsend, Richard F., ed. Ancient West Mexico: Art and archaeology of the unknown past. Yale University Press, 1998.
Kan, Michael, Clement Woodward Meighan, and Henry B. Nicholson. Sculpture of Ancient West Mexico: Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima: a Catalogue of the Proctor Stafford Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989.
Gallagher, Jacki. Companions of the Dead: Ceramic Tomb Sculpture from Ancient West Mexico. Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 1983.
Von Winning, Hasso. The shaft tomb figures of West Mexico. No. 24. Southwest Museum, 1974.
My real estate agent is really angry at me because I haven’t been able to pay my rent for this month. I’m $250 short. He’s making it very clear that if I don’t pay this soon I will be asked to vacate the property… And I simply can’t afford to move right now.
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If you have even $1 to spare it could help me with this. I’m desperate.
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Overprotective Dad getting out the shotgun when his baby girls first bf shows up at age 14 isn’t ‘cute’. Modest Dad telling his sweet precious daughter to cover up her shoulders isn’t ‘sweet’. Concerned Daddy wanting to know where his baby is and who she’s with at all times isn’t ‘good parenting’. Loving supportive father who gave his sweetheart a promise ring and danced with her at the chastity ball isn’t ‘old fashioned but harmless’.
Fathers who think they are entitled to their daughters bodies are the scum of the earth and need to stop.
so we’ve tried explaining vaccines using science and that scared people
but what if
instead
we told them that vaccines actually contain magic rocks or healing energy
“we left this rabies vaccine in the light of a full moon to cleanse it, so it’s safe. everyone knows about the link between rabies and full moons :)”
“vaccination is an ancient practice going back at least hundreds of years that draws on your body’s natural healing abilities to let you fight disease naturally”
Please do not talk about a child’s weight in front of them, or tell them they need to go on a diet.
Talking about weight in front of children is associated with mental and physical health risks, and both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Pediatric Society recommend against all weight talkaround children.
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