Featured Native Food painting

This thread is more a 'show-n-tell' I guess, but I think it's interesting, and I always appreciate what you'all so knowledgeably add.

The painting is by someone named Jacqueline Klein and is dated 1987. It shows a Native woman using a digging stick to forage for food. Details about her clothing, bag, hat, etc seem intended to catalog specific traditional cultural traits.

Similarly I think the plants look such that they must represent culturally significant 'First Foods' or sources of materials.

The landscape looks to me a whole lot like Central or Eastern Oregon, but could be Idaho too.

I welcome any comments or interpretations of the many 'clues' the painting presents.

Thank you!

 

Refreshingly realistic portrayal of what was ordinary, everyday business for First Peoples women. Thanks!

 

maybe digging medicinal roots..

I don't recognize the hilly pine forest......or the clothing..

 

i like it, looks painted in a folk art style. I like the way the arms and stick seem to merge into a cool shape, like an extension of her

 

My first impression is that it is young student work, and without much ethnographic accuracy. Sorry.

 

No 'Sorry' about it! I always appreciate your input.

 

The artist is more successful with the landscape than the figure.

Debora