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Artist: Sarah Thomas (Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Member)
Collection: VTA 2025 PAMBLO: Remembering a Forgotten Leader
Description:
Remembering the time of Pamblo, a time when our culture was still intact, spirit beings like “wʉktol” would have been far more present. A representation of our connection to place, story, and culture.
This creature was said to steal and assault the Nisenan women and if men came to save them, it would throw them down the hill or into the water.
It was said to live in a cave along Deer Creek. Stories like this serve as “societal guard rails,” of what not to be like, reminding us that humans were never at the top of the food chain, teaching us to navigate ourselves delicately in harmony with the landscape.
Artist: Sarah Thomas (Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribal Member)
Collection: VTA 2025 PAMBLO: Remembering a Forgotten Leader
Description:
Remembering the time of Pamblo, a time when our culture was still intact, spirit beings like “wʉktol” would have been far more present. A representation of our connection to place, story, and culture.
This creature was said to steal and assault the Nisenan women and if men came to save them, it would throw them down the hill or into the water.
It was said to live in a cave along Deer Creek. Stories like this serve as “societal guard rails,” of what not to be like, reminding us that humans were never at the top of the food chain, teaching us to navigate ourselves delicately in harmony with the landscape.