In an effort to preserve knowledge for generations to come and create an ownership over intellectual rights for the Maasai people, I had a client who was requesting to have pencil drawings of plants that are used for their medicinal properties according to the Maasai people. With observing photos taken, I had to create drawings that would help someone scientifically identify the plant accurately. The end product will be a field guide that the Maasai people will be able to teach from and have copyright ownership of their traditional herbal medicine.

For more information about this project, check out on YouTube the video titled:
"The Olosho Ethnobotany Project" posted by GVSU Anthropology.

Media used: Pencil and digital editing.