My great grandmother Nora (Rocking Boat) was a Seneca Clan mother. She taught me how to make pies and gather Medicinal plants in the woods. She was always laughing but also serious and wise. I've painted her as she wanted to be seen in her portrait, in formal dress rather than traditional Haudenosaunee attire but I've added a Wampum shell and Beaver Clan pin. Behind her on the wall is a picture of the great Peacemaker in his canoe: the first clan mother Jihonsaseh was the first to hear and accept his message of Peace. Also on the wall I've painted symbols of my memories with her on the Seneca Territories of Western New York: pies, a stuffed orangutan with long arms, the only toy for us (we had the woods, after all), and wintergreen. which I loved to gather with her. The original will hang in the Haudenosaunee juried art show at NYS historic site at Ganondagan, the birthplace of Jigonsaseh the original Mother of Peace, in April 2026
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Artist: Kristin Witbeck Lee
Dimensions: 1”D x 24”W x 30”H
Signature: Signed
Medium: Print
Style: Post-Impressionism
Framed: No
Rarity: Open Edition Print
My great grandmother Nora (Rocking Boat) was a Seneca Clan mother. She taught me how to make pies and gather Medicinal plants in the woods. She was always laughing but also serious and wise. I've painted her as she wanted to be seen in her portrait, in formal dress rather than traditional Haudenosaunee attire but I've added a Wampum shell and Beaver Clan pin. Behind her on the wall is a picture of the great Peacemaker in his canoe: the first clan mother Jihonsaseh was the first to hear and accept his message of Peace. Also on the wall I've painted symbols of my memories with her on the Seneca Territories of Western New York: pies, a stuffed orangutan with long arms, the only toy for us (we had the woods, after all), and wintergreen. which I loved to gather with her. The original will hang in the Haudenosaunee juried art show at NYS historic site at Ganondagan, the birthplace of Jigonsaseh the original Mother of Peace, in April 2026
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Artist: Kristin Witbeck Lee
Dimensions: 1”D x 24”W x 30”H
Signature: Signed
Medium: Print
Style: Post-Impressionism
Framed: No
Rarity: Open Edition Print