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Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Long Armed woman

who is the long armed lady and what is she supposed to represent? why is she so scary and yet at times beautiful?

2 comments:

rbreaux said...

i think we all know that the long armed woman is somehow tied to Tilly Tilly
Tilly Tilly has a crude drawing of the long armed woman in the servants quarters on the grandfather's land and she is very protective of this drawing
Tilly Tilly said that she has a twin thus maybe this long armed woman is the spirit or ibeji statue of Tilly Tilly or her twin

Ele said...

hmmm, I think that it represents both Tilly Tilly's twin and Jess's twin. its beautiful when Jess subconciously feels it is her own twin but frightening when it's Tilly's... or something like that.