Offerings

Name: Offerings
Brand: Raknida
Price: 55.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Marjory Yeko Jewitt

Dense black-and-white illustration of a large face with closed eyes, a hand holding a small vessel, a serpent with a face, a many-faced figure, and women dancing, drumming and carrying below.

$55.00 – $125.00

Dancers, a drummer, mothers and a serpent with a human face crowd around a single offering. Yeko's dense black-and-white drawing shows traditional faith as part of daily life in Uganda.

Offerings is a Studio Edition: 20 museum-quality art prints in each size, each numbered in its white border. Every artwork comes with its Cultural Passport.

The Cultural Passport

Every order comes with the heritage documented.

Digital, emailed when your order ships: the work's story, the tradition it draws on and how it was made. 5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm), ready to print and frame beside the work.

How it works →

Many homes keep a corner for what matters most: a photograph, a candle, a cup set down for someone no longer here. Marjory Yeko Jewitt draws the older version of that corner in black-and-white line so bold it looks carved: a dancer with raised arms, a coiled serpent, masks, vessels set down. An offering keeps the living in conversation with the ancestors, and Jewitt draws it with dignity, not mystery. Along the lower edge, women bring what they have: a drum, a bowl carried on the head, a child on the back.

The culture · Uganda, East Africa. Uganda’s many peoples hold faith in layers: churches and mosques stand alongside older shrines where families honour their ancestors and the spirits of land and water.

Motifs in this work

Hand lifting a vessel: the offering itself, given with respect

Serpent with a human face: a spirit presence in the sky

Women dancing, drumming, carrying: devotion as everyday community life

Edition: Edition of 20 in each size · 60 across all sizes. Further runs possible once a size sells out, each tagged (Run 2). Edition numbers count the works sold through Raknida; the artist may also sell their own editions of this work.
Numbering: Number, title and artist printed in the white border.
Printing: Museum-quality giclée with archival pigment inks on museum-grade cotton fine art paper.
Includes: Your numbered artwork and its Cultural Passport.

Size	Sheet	Image	Museum-Quality Print only	Framed	Available
S	8 × 12 in	6½ × 9¼ in	$55	+$65	20
M	16 × 24 in	14 × 19¾ in	$85	+$119	19
L	24 × 36 in	22 × 31¼ in	$125	+$179	20

The artist

Marjory Yeko Jewitt

Ugandan · Kampala, Uganda · 5 works on Raknida

Marjory Yeko Jewitt, who works as Yeko, is a Ugandan illustrator based in Kampala. She draws in bold black and white, with a dense, rhythmic line closer in feeling to a woodcut than a sketch, and the same strokes run through sky, land, cloth and skin, so that a figure and her surroundings seem cut from one block. Her subjects are the women who hold East African daily life together, and the patterned vessels, cloth and cowrie-like shapes that fill her sheets come from the visual language of everyday Ugandan life, drawn with the same care she gives a face.

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