Moebius: invitation au voyage

A brief passage on the photo-blog to mark the morning’s discovery:  Moebius’ series for Hermès.

Click on the thumbnails to see them in the lightbox, it’s worth it :)

Caddoan languages

From the Online Etymology dictionary.

Texas — Mexican province, briefly an independent nation and now a U.S. state, from Spanish Texas, Tejas, earlier pronounced “ta-shas,” originally an ethnic name, from Caddo (eastern Texas Indian tribe) taysha “friends, allies,” written by the Spanish as a plural. An earlier noun for “Texan of Mexican background” was Texican (1863).

Caddoan languages

The language group includes the Pawnee.


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Iroquoian languages

The Iroquois had significant contact contact with the French as one might expect from their presence in the valley of the St. Lawrence River and the north-eastern Great Lakes Region. The early contact distribution seems to bears little relationship to where the groups ended up, in particular in the Ohio Valley, and — in the case of the Cherokee — in Oklahoma. One of the Iroquois tribes has become an everyday word in both French and English to describe a hairstyle…

Pre-contact distribution of the Iroquoian languages


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