1. From: www.Art Blog/Eric Whollem.htm
Essu means 'old woman' in the Concow Maidu Indian language. This work
is a fanciful rendering of an elderly lady with her baskets.
I have lived in close proximity to many Maidu people over the years. The
language and culture has penetrated my art.

2. Earth Sprite
ash paint and gouache on paper; aboriginal art; aboriginal art; modern art; figurative art; absract art; folk art; figurative abstraction.

3. abstract art, pictographs
The Forest of Hands
The Forest of Hands
abstract art, pictographs

4. A pictographic abstraction.
The Beetle
A pictographic abstraction.

5. pictographic abstraction
The Gunas
pictographic abstraction

6. Figurative abstraction
Bird  Philosophy
Figurative abstraction

7. CHARACTERS WITH DUAL POLARITIES pictographic art, figurative expressionism

8. abstract art; figurative abstraction
Dancing Color
abstract art; figurative abstraction

9. Pictographic abstraction.
Pictographic Tableau
Pictographic abstraction.

10. Constellation of the Geranium
figurative abstraction; geometric abstraction

11. natural earth pigments gathered by the artist;
Garden of the Turtle
natural earth pigments gathered by the artist;

12. using earth paints gathered by the artist;.
Goddess
using earth paints gathered by the artist;.

13. Luncheon of the Bird People
using earth pigments gathered in nature by the artist

14. Native American sweat lodge traditions
Sweat Vision
Native American sweat lodge traditions

15. ; abstraction; figurative abstraction
Ancestral Tree
; abstraction; figurative abstraction

16. geometric figurative abstraction;
O, City Woman
geometric figurative abstraction;

17. earth paints and gouache on paper; geometric abstraction
Reflections
earth paints and gouache on paper; geometric abstraction

18. contemporary symbolist folk art; Maidu Indian influences
The Yellow Fish
contemporary symbolist folk art; Maidu Indian influences

19. Modoc petroglyphs north of Shasta; Indian art; shamanic art, rock art
The Alchemy
Modoc petroglyphs north of Shasta; Indian art; shamanic art, rock art

20. Native American Insect Medicine
Worm World
Native American Insect Medicine

21. Flowers Among the Stones
Watercolor and wax resist on paper

22. Reminiscences of Aztlan
pictographs; petroglyphs, rock art

23. watercolor and wax resist
The Cloud Garden
watercolor and wax resist

24. wax resist; Maidu Indian religion: the Dream Lodge
Dance of the Kuksu
wax resist; Maidu Indian religion: the Dream Lodge

25. pictographs; rock art; Maidu Indians
Little Spirit People
pictographs; rock art; Maidu Indians

26. When I was staying at Black Earth Village in Feather Falls, the old Indian grandfather used to sit  under the walnut tree, where he would set out a tub of water with a stick across the top. This was a wasp trap. Insects would fall into the water and drown, thus eliminating what otherwise would have been a bothersome pest in the area of seats in the shade. Meat bees were especially hard to take with their painful bites. I did not choose to place the wasp nest on this painting, the wasps chose this painting to establish their nest. They apparently wanted their story to be told.
I lived off and on at Chi Chi Te, or Black Earth Villlage for many years, among my friends who happened to be Concow Maidu Indians.
The black background in this painting is made from rough chunks of charcoal, ground in a mortar. The green and blue earth paints where
gathered from Forbestown and Lumpkin Road respectively.
WASP DOCTOR

27. gathered from Forbestown and Lumpkin Road respectively. “
“When I was staying at Black Earth Village in Feather Falls, the old Indian grandfather used to sit  under the walnut tree, where he would set out a tub of water with a stick across the top. This was a wasp trap. Insects would fall into the water and drown, thus eliminating what otherwise would have been a bothersome pest in the area of seats in the shade. Meat bees were especially hard to take with their painful bites. I did not choose to place the wasp nest on this painting, the wasps chose this painting to establish their nest. They apparently wanted their story to be told. “
“I lived off and on at Chi Chi Te, or Black Earth Villlage for many years, among my friends who happened to be Concow Maidu Indians.
The black background in this painting is made from rough chunks of charcoal, ground in a mortar. The green and blue earth paints where
gathered from Forbestown and Lumpkin Road respectively. “
When I was staying at Black Earth Village in Feather Falls, the old Indian grandfather used to sit  under the walnut tree, where he would set out a tub of water with a stick across the top. This was a wasp trap. Insects would fall into the water and drown, thus eliminating what otherwise would have been a bothersome pest in the area of seats in the shade. Meat bees were especially hard to take with their painful bites. I did not choose to place the wasp nest on this painting, the wasps chose this painting to establish their nest. They apparently wanted their story to be told.
I lived off and on at Chi Chi Te, or Black Earth Villlage for many years, among my friends who happened to be Concow Maidu Indians.
The black background in this painting is made from rough chunks of charcoal, ground in a mortar. The green and blue earth paints where
gathered from Forbestown and Lumpkin Road respectively.

28. Other Artists, styles and techniques

29. Maidu Indian artist Dalbert Castro – Acrylic on canvas
Maidu Walk
Maidu Indian artist Dalbert Castro – Acrylic on canvas

30. Greasy Grass Premonition
Maidu Indian artist – Judith Lowry

31. Maidu Indian – acrylic art, the coyote – the trickster
Harry Fonseca
Maidu Indian – acrylic art, the coyote – the trickster