{"id":46,"count":10,"description":"One of the first things I photographed was the home of my elders on the Six Nations Reserve. I walked around the old homestead photographing objects that reminded me of the principals of Iroquois life that I had learned from my elders. There was a large pile of white corn that was ready for drying that my step-grandfather wanted me to help him with. He demonstrated how to weave the corn leaves into long strands in order to hang it. The act of weaving corn leaves into a braid is a symbol of the indigenous teaching that all living things are interconnected. This precept manifests itself in my work as a storyteller weaving together the past, present, and future.","link":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/category\/field-work\/corn-husks\/","name":"Corn Husks","slug":"corn-husks","taxonomy":"category","parent":42,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/42"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeff-thomas.ca\/map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}