July 11, 2022
Prepared for
The City of Richmond CA Public Arts Commission
‘Ookwe Park Signage REVISED 3
Final Designs
Directional Park Entrance Signage
Didactic History and Plant Signage
Botanical Plant Markers
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‘Ookwe Park
07112022 | Directional ‘Ookwe Park Entrance Signage REVISED 3 FINAL DESIGN for ’OK to Print’
Directional ‘Ookwe Park Entrance Signage
Scale: 1” = 10’
Final Size: 60” w x 40” h
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Date: _______________________________________
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07112022 | Didactic ‘Ookwe Park History and Plant Signage REVISED 3 FINAL DESIGN for ’OK to Print’
Didactic History and Plant Signage
Scale: 1” = 6“
Final Size: 48” w x 18” h
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Date: _______________________________________
'Ookwe Park has been thousands of years in the making. The park is on the site of a Shellmound–an ancient burial site/cemetery of the Ohlone (Huchiun) people. Shellmounds are the ancient monuments of the /f_irst people that live here and continue to have an unbroken tie to these lands. These monuments were created in villages where freshwater met saltwater and are older than the pyramids of Egypt.
There were once as many as 425 shellmounds in the Bay Area, prior to the arrival of the Spanish explorers. The Ohlone lived in over 50 separate Tribes and spoke several different languages. They thrived in the abundance of the Bay Area, and by living in reciprocity with the land. These great monuments have been continuously
destroyed because of development over the past few hundred years and it causes great suffering to the Tribe that still lives on their traditional lands.
Through thousands of years of living in reciprocity with the lands, plants, and waters, the Ohlone have developed spiritual practices, languages, and economies and continue to practice Traditional Ecological Knowledges (TEK). Ohlone people are not of the past but are generous people who now share their traditional territories with everyone who now lives, works and plays on their lands. 'OOKWE PARK
City of Richmond
'Ookwe Park was funded by
1.5% Moody Underpass Capital Improvement Project, 2017 - 2021 Artist - Masayuki Nagase
Ookwe Park Design and Hand Carved Boulders
The Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation
Public Art Advisory Committee
Cercis occidentalis - Western Redbud
Quercus lobata - Valley Oak
Quercus agrigolia - Coast Live Oak
Quercus veluthia - Black Oak
Angelica archangelica - Angelica Root
Aesculus californica - California Buckeye
Apocynum cannabinum - Dogbane
Arctostaphylos denis/f_lora - Manzanita
Arctostaphylos tomentosa - Wooly Manzanita
Chlorogalum pomeridianum - Soap Root
Fragaria californica - California Wild Strawberry
Monardella villosa - Coyote Mint
Salvia apiana - White Sage
Salvia columbariae - California Chia
Sambucus callicarpa - Elderberry
Satureja douglasii - Yerba Buena
Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation is working in
collaboration with the City of Richmond to tend to
the traditional plants that have been selected as part
of the landscape for 'Ookwe Park. Tribal members will
have the opportunity to share this knowledge with
the public through signage and public gatherings
and will steward this landscape as they have for
hundreds of generations.
HEALING PLANTS
Western Redbud Valley Oak
Dogbane ManzanitaAngelica Root California Buckeye
Wooly Manzanita Soap Root
California Wild Strawberry Coyote Mint
White Sage California Chia Elderberry Yerba Buena
Coast Live Oak Black Oak
07112022 | Botanical Plant Markers REVISED 3 FINAL DESIGN for ’OK to Print’
Botanical Plant Markers
To Scale
Final Size: 5” w x 3” h
Western Redbud
Cercis cccidentalis
Coast Live Oak
Quercus agrigolia
Black Oak
Quercus veluthia
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Name ______________________________________
Date: _______________________________________
Valley Oak
Quercus lobata
07112022 | Botanical Plant Markers REVISED 3 FINAL DESIGN for ’OK to Print’
Botanical Plant Markers
To Scale
Final Size: 5” w x 3” h
Angelica Root
Angelica archangelica
Dogbane
Apocynum cannabinum
Manzanita
Arctostaphylos
denisflora
‘OK’ to Print
Name ______________________________________
Date: _______________________________________
California Buckeye
Aesculus californica
07112022 | Botanical Plant Markers REVISED 3 FINAL DESIGN for ’OK to Print’
Botanical Plant Markers
To Scale
Final Size: 5” w x 3” h
W ooly Manzanita
Arctostaphylos tomentosa
California Wild
Strawberry
Fragaria californica
Coyote Mint
Monardella villosa
‘OK’ to Print
Name ______________________________________
Date: _______________________________________
Soap Root
Chlorogalum
pomeridianum
07112022 | Botanical Plant Markers REVISED 3 FINAL DESIGN for ’OK to Print’
Botanical Plant Markers
To Scale
Final Size: 5” w x 3” h
White Sage
Salvia apiana
Elderberry
Sambucus callicarpa
Y erba Buena
Satureja douglasii
‘OK’ to Print
Name ______________________________________
Date: _______________________________________
California Chia
Salvia columbariae