A:shiwi Map Art Project
▻http://www.ashiwi-museum.org/mapart.html
A:shiwi have always had maps. Names of places within our aboriginal territory have been passed-down from generation to generation, but in the past 500 years we have been re-mapped. What was once known as Sunha:kwin K’yabachu Yalanne is now called the San Francisco Peaks and many people now call Heshoda Ts’in"a... Pescado.
The A:shiwi Map Art Project is an art, language and place name project all in one. The project is intended to be a tool to help Zunis connect to places through artistic renderings of the Zuni cultural landscape. A group of Zuni advisors worked to first decide what not to map then what would be culturally appropriate to include on the maps.
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