Jacy sleeping peacefully after coming home from California. (May 15, 2005)
Native Drums
For the past 6 weeks Jayne's class (all the 4th and 5th graders) at school have been working with a resident artist learning about the Tlingit (KLING kit), the Haida (HIGH duh) and the Tsimshian (SIM she ann) native tribes of Southeast Alaska. They have learned how to introduce themselves in the native tongue. They have learned about the art and form styles used in totems and the meanings behind the symbols. They even had the opportunity to make a deer skin drum (Goo-jow), including soaking the deer skin and stretching it over the wood drum frame and letting it set until it hardened. Once it was completely dry they got to draw their chosen native symbol on the drum and the paint it. They look SO COOL! They even made their own drum stick using a stick, fabric, buck leather, and deer tendon, which was used as the string to tie it all together. This past week the students performed for the rest of the school, singing a song/chant in the native tongue. It is a welcome message...
Hi Jody, Jay and Jacy,
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy catching up on Jacy's progress...what a sweetheart and a fighter all at the same time...you go Jacy! Glad to hear about the good news in regards to her health. I love the pictures...she is so cute! Have fun at Roosevelt. Debra Moody