Tribal Face Cards

This year, I created a standard set of playing cards, complete with two jokers. The concept was to have four different tribes as the suits. Each suit, instead of the standard suits, has its own suit that represents something of its corresponding tribe.

The four tribes I worked with were from all around the world. They were the Inuits, the Yoruba, the Cherokee, and the Australian Aborigines.

The hands come from a design on Inuit shaman parkas.
The stars represent the Cherokee nation; there are seven points, each representing the seven major Cherokee clans.
The snail shells come from the Yoruba creation myth. The dirt stored in the snail shell was the dirt from which the earth was made.
The circles are symbols found in Aboriginal art. Lines drawn in the same fashion represents travel, while the circles represent where the person has stopped.

I spent the whole semester working on these cards, and I'm pleased with what I've turned out. This inspires me to create more playing cards in the future!