The Naomi dress

This dress is for my daughter. She has always taken an interest in knowing how continue the “making” and traditional ecological knowledge that is incorporated into each element of a dress. The materials for this dress were collected in the village of tsɨtpxatu (place of the whales). This is our material place and the village that our matrilineal line has had strong ties to for countless generations.

Leah MataSeptember 25, 2019Comment

Heard Museum Interview

I don’t really like to do interviews because in my opinion they freeze your views in time and considering that we all grow and evolve over our lifetime, I am hesitant to put in thoughts into a forever archive. With that said I do feel obligated to participate when asked, so here is a link to an interview I did at the Heard Museum Indian Market.

Leah MataSeptember 10, 2014 Comments