{"id":2310,"date":"2026-06-12T17:23:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=2310"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:24:14","slug":"seneca-artist-paints-sky-woman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/seneca-artist-paints-sky-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Seneca artist paints Sky Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-2297 size-thumbnail\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sky-Woman-500x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sky-Woman-500x667.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sky-Woman-250x334.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sky-Woman-1000x1334.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sky-Woman-768x1025.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sky-Woman-1151x1536.jpg 1151w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sky-Woman-1535x2048.jpg 1535w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sky-Woman-624x833.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sky-Woman.jpg 1642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Sky Woman, a central figure in the Haudenosaunee creation story, is shown here falling from the heavens to land on a great turtle. The turtle and other animals lift her out of the water with earth, which she uses to form Turtle Island. Ernest Smith, 1936. Wikimedia.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ernest Smith was a Seneca artist. In this piece, he painted the story of Sky Woman falling to earth, where she would land on a great turtle. On the back of this turtle, and with the help of birds and animals, she would create Turtle Island.\u00a0<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernest Smith was a Seneca artist. In this piece, he painted the story of Sky Woman falling to earth, where she would land on a great turtle. On the back of this turtle, and with the help of birds and animals, she would create Turtle Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2310","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2313,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2310\/revisions\/2313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}