Sylvain Rivard

A farandole of Iroquois characters. The tail-end character has fallen to the ground. They are all dressed in 19th-century style.

A standing woman dressed in a conical headdress, a short coat, a skirt, chaps and moccasins. The hues are fluorescent green and yellow on a brown cardboard background.

Miniature portrait of an old, one-eyed Iroquois woman carrying a portage strap on her forehead, with her hair parted in the middle and swept back.

An old man walking and carrying an ornate bag in his right hand. He is bundled into a blue and black blanket. He is wearing red beaded mitasses, moccasins and a leather headband on his long grey hair. He is surrounded by glass beads and greenery.

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.

“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

Face entirely made from sunflower seeds glued onto a plastic mould. Corn leaves are glued on the upper edging.

Technical illustration depicting a natural leather moccasin gathered at the toe with a deep purple upper decorated with a red ribbon and embroidered with a translucent floral motif.

Technical illustration depicting a natural leather moccasin with a single seam on the top of the foot. It is embroidered with porcupine quills, coloured green, yellow and orange on the seam on the top of the foot and the cuffs.

Character with angular features in ochre tones on a double-curved horned motif. The piece is bordered with a red bias ribbon and white glass beads.

Characters with angular features holding hands beneath a double-curved horned motif. The piece is bordered with a blue bias ribbon and white glass beads.