Shamans: Decoding a Colombian Visionary Drawing

This depiction of a vision features many elements that reflect stories of creation, as told by the oral traditions of the Tukano people. Collected by anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, who claims it was drawn by Yebá, a Tukano person from the Vaupés area of Colombia, this image is composed of geometric and anthropomorphic motifs. While geometric […]