https://alexisdemetriades.com Alexis Demetriades Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:45:20 +0000 https://alexisdemetriades.com en https://alexisdemetriades.com/Homepage Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:14:27 +0000 Alexis Demetriades https://alexisdemetriades.com/Homepage <img width="910" height="685" width_o="910" height_o="685" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15f8b141212b54bbf00ee1613f7c2a13273974d6a8ce4b5d55778cd7ea2ca550/Untitled-5.png" data-mid="62049069" border="0" data-scale="65" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/910/i/15f8b141212b54bbf00ee1613f7c2a13273974d6a8ce4b5d55778cd7ea2ca550/Untitled-5.png" /> https://alexisdemetriades.com/Hunting-Amulets Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:12:22 +0000 Alexis Demetriades https://alexisdemetriades.com/Hunting-Amulets <img width="610" height="971" width_o="610" height_o="971" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cca607d40e29d7bd2420d7a6c4ad0b5e03f38bb0719cddd1625be40ad01248df/Cargoamulets_ox_1200.jpg" data-mid="62006399" border="0" data-scale="72" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/610/i/cca607d40e29d7bd2420d7a6c4ad0b5e03f38bb0719cddd1625be40ad01248df/Cargoamulets_ox_1200.jpg" /> Dwarf Coconut Hunting AmuletsDrawn from the collections at the Pitt Rivers museum at the University of Oxford for the Smithsonian Institution. Dwarf coconuts were carved with 'grotesque faces' to represent the spirits housed inside them. They were considered objects of great power and were used while hunting. They were collected in the early 1900s in Papua New Guinea. watercolor and gouache https://alexisdemetriades.com/Jawbone-Necklaces Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:32:34 +0000 Alexis Demetriades https://alexisdemetriades.com/Jawbone-Necklaces Jawbone Necklaces&nbsp;&nbsp;Painted for The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.&nbsp;Collected in Papua New Guinea in the 1920s.These necklaces, constructed from human jawbones,&nbsp;were collected in 1929&nbsp; watercolor and gouache <img width="1449" height="1833" width_o="1449" height_o="1833" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1ca225f6ca78458c1fc714fd22c1f6399aaf7092965d6078ab4556840e43eb4/cargostack.jpg" data-mid="62004722" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1ca225f6ca78458c1fc714fd22c1f6399aaf7092965d6078ab4556840e43eb4/cargostack.jpg" /> https://alexisdemetriades.com/Papuan-Comb Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:17:31 +0000 Alexis Demetriades https://alexisdemetriades.com/Papuan-Comb <img width="1047" height="1676" width_o="1047" height_o="1676" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/529c7ea4ce2c154b155519ab2894455eaaf7625814a6b6bf01beae36cff4b227/long_comb.jpg" data-mid="62003590" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/529c7ea4ce2c154b155519ab2894455eaaf7625814a6b6bf01beae36cff4b227/long_comb.jpg" /> Papuan Comb Completed at the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford for The Smithsonian. The label describes the comb as having 'grotesque faces' carved into it. These faces would have been a representation of the spirit living within the comb. The white pigment inside the carved areas is made from lime. watercolor https://alexisdemetriades.com/Tobacco-Pipe Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:38:52 +0000 Alexis Demetriades https://alexisdemetriades.com/Tobacco-Pipe Tobacco Pipe This bamboo tobacco pipe was painted at the Smithsonian. it is wrapped in lizard skin, and features a carving of what might be a lily pattern. I was asked to visually 'unroll' the pipe so that the design could be seen in its entirety watercolor and gouache&nbsp;<img width="574" height="1132" width_o="574" height_o="1132" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dd240ea88724d3ff8aeb515981a086827de9cf75d4ffced6778365b4e166941/color-pipe-retoucj_1512x_1512.jpg" data-mid="62007602" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/574/i/0dd240ea88724d3ff8aeb515981a086827de9cf75d4ffced6778365b4e166941/color-pipe-retoucj_1512x_1512.jpg" /> https://alexisdemetriades.com/Stretched-Head-Armature Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:27:41 +0000 Alexis Demetriades https://alexisdemetriades.com/Stretched-Head-Armature <img width="1408" height="1539" width_o="1408" height_o="1539" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d248d853858f3ea0bd22b0939ce51743c792fb4809720a305adf00bb0b68e6c3/cargoskull2b_crop.jpg" data-mid="62007371" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d248d853858f3ea0bd22b0939ce51743c792fb4809720a305adf00bb0b68e6c3/cargoskull2b_crop.jpg" /> Stretched Head Armature For The Smithsonian. This skull, collected in Papua New Guinea during the 1929 USDA sugarcane expedition, is an example of the structure underlying the stretched heads. watercolor https://alexisdemetriades.com/Selk-nam-Body-Painting Wed, 26 Feb 2020 00:19:21 +0000 Alexis Demetriades https://alexisdemetriades.com/Selk-nam-Body-Painting <img width="1217" height="3175" width_o="1217" height_o="3175" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5fe41f4d9c927e55431bf3dab8590a931851ab504ba0770557973a1c0f493497/real-final-selknam-copy_2_o.jpg" data-mid="62006700" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5fe41f4d9c927e55431bf3dab8590a931851ab504ba0770557973a1c0f493497/real-final-selknam-copy_2_o.jpg" /> Selk’nam Body Painting This illustration represents a range of body decorations employed by the now-extinct Selk'nam people of Tierra Del Fuego for their coming-of-age ceremony, called Hain. Adult members of the tribe would be painted and disguised as feared spirits, and over a period of days or weeks would conduct the complex initiation in the snow. Although black and white photographs are the only existing visual documentation of this ornamentation, missionaries described the pigments as black, white, and red. ink on scratchboard https://alexisdemetriades.com/Akeke-Baskets Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:51:01 +0000 Alexis Demetriades https://alexisdemetriades.com/Akeke-Baskets <img width="1326" height="1316" width_o="1326" height_o="1316" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8284478c1370616f7ea834fd7a954848e0eb18c1545a0b817b0bbb65df62fb81/cargostars_crop.jpg" data-mid="62005354" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8284478c1370616f7ea834fd7a954848e0eb18c1545a0b817b0bbb65df62fb81/cargostars_crop.jpg" /> <img width="1321" height="1316" width_o="1321" height_o="1316" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ba59973e7e5dddba3b034c5f8a07271165a14d7850833de3a3e2e614aca13259/cargogreen_o.jpg" data-mid="62006151" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ba59973e7e5dddba3b034c5f8a07271165a14d7850833de3a3e2e614aca13259/cargogreen_o.jpg" /> <img width="1325" height="1316" width_o="1325" height_o="1316" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0c7e6955949e704eb3b2fad373795c869eeff8d1ae4dbc2b1472d56cc525b7a/cargowood_o.jpg" data-mid="62005433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0c7e6955949e704eb3b2fad373795c869eeff8d1ae4dbc2b1472d56cc525b7a/cargowood_o.jpg" /> <img width="1328" height="1316" width_o="1328" height_o="1316" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe883c5321a6db02f20029a8383faf39f25dcda7783dfa983486f9e4d1e8ed28/cargoelbow_o.jpg" data-mid="62006040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fe883c5321a6db02f20029a8383faf39f25dcda7783dfa983486f9e4d1e8ed28/cargoelbow_o.jpg" /> <img width="1327" height="1316" width_o="1327" height_o="1316" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c054f72328550407097982120281accd8e44c0d622b55748024eed953faffbb/cargohornbill_o.jpg" data-mid="62006042" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c054f72328550407097982120281accd8e44c0d622b55748024eed953faffbb/cargohornbill_o.jpg" /> <img width="1323" height="1316" width_o="1323" height_o="1316" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f7c19e78b83777a27e8377b0c8a65fa5e194d2f53bc7299b43114aea1433f9b/cargovaria_o.jpg" data-mid="62006153" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f7c19e78b83777a27e8377b0c8a65fa5e194d2f53bc7299b43114aea1433f9b/cargovaria_o.jpg" /> <img width="1327" height="1316" width_o="1327" height_o="1316" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/708a1247a3bed63bae16167fce961eb774cc1052fcd869226d0db09a398fad5c/cargostar2_o.jpg" data-mid="62006152" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/708a1247a3bed63bae16167fce961eb774cc1052fcd869226d0db09a398fad5c/cargostar2_o.jpg" /> <img width="1326" height="1316" width_o="1326" height_o="1316" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d1fc2fdbab110e8f9e0bffe8fa2fceb650edc834d42b266312076eb98f47c44/cargobutterfly_o.jpg" data-mid="62006010" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d1fc2fdbab110e8f9e0bffe8fa2fceb650edc834d42b266312076eb98f47c44/cargobutterfly_o.jpg" /> <img width="1144" height="908" width_o="1144" height_o="908" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f2d90b01825b483f3c3c44ae52ecd65804549771cf47f8868b2e42fc32ee5fe/revised-baskets_o.jpg" data-mid="62006154" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f2d90b01825b483f3c3c44ae52ecd65804549771cf47f8868b2e42fc32ee5fe/revised-baskets_o.jpg" /> Akeke Baskets Painted for The Smithsonian Institution's 'Recovering Voices' Initiative, which aims to document and preserve dying languages and technologies. These illustrations, along with some simplified diagrams, have been made into a book. It is part of the Smithsonian archives, and has been made freely available to anybody in Papua New Guinea who is interested in making or studying these baskets. watercolor and gouache https://alexisdemetriades.com/Fossilized-Fern Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:48:33 +0000 Alexis Demetriades https://alexisdemetriades.com/Fossilized-Fern Fossilized Fern Found by my grandfather in the Jurassic shales which outcrop on the north flank of the Cleveland Hills in Yorkshire, UK. 140,000,000 years old.&nbsp; watercolor&nbsp; <img width="1165" height="1368" width_o="1165" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87418c8c6ea52ed4d55df7d5a528371bb84fd217810abbc605e008b181536c0c/fossil6_crop.jpg" data-mid="62005133" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87418c8c6ea52ed4d55df7d5a528371bb84fd217810abbc605e008b181536c0c/fossil6_crop.jpg" /> https://alexisdemetriades.com/Jewel-Beetle Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:45:20 +0000 Alexis Demetriades https://alexisdemetriades.com/Jewel-Beetle Jewel Beetle colored pencil on Duralene&nbsp; <img width="510" height="540" width_o="510" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b8fb0fefaddf7718f9bfa29816811d969e35d7732c2382fb216dcbcbcb16cc7/jewel-beetle5_480xb_510.jpg" data-mid="62010997" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/510/i/3b8fb0fefaddf7718f9bfa29816811d969e35d7732c2382fb216dcbcbcb16cc7/jewel-beetle5_480xb_510.jpg" />