A Media page has been added to my website. Among my contributions is an image of an eagle feather which graces the cover of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions’s Indigenous Notions of Ownership and Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Volume 166. This feather also apprears in my anthotype series.
Anthotype made from tuilips
The feather was photographed as a digital capture on black velvet in ambient light from a window with a small white foamboard used as a reflector to fill in shadow detail.
It was originally part of a ceremonial eagle feather staff under the care of Fond du Lac Nation elder and service veteran, Roger Smith. While photographing Roger during a Memorial Day military color guard ceremony where he wore traditional regalia, the feather with its leather tether fell from the staff. According to custom, when a feather falls during a ceremony it is not returned to the staff but instead is passed on to an indigenous person as the new caretaker. It was a tremendous honor to be gifted with this feather by Roger.