Rock Art

Discusses the mural in a chamber in Xultún that confirms the Mayan calendar does not predict that the world will end.

Anthropology and Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1974.

Explains the benefits of this technique over using chalk.

Brief introduction to petroglyph and pictograph art created by Native Americans.

Study evaluates usefulness of methods used for dating rock art.

Discusses scientific methods for recording and dating rock art.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1992.

Reports on an archaeological survey done to define areas in 1968 and sites tested in Kwatna Inlet in 1969.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2006.

Forms part of Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, v. 66 (p.131-633, figures 1-229, tables 1-88)

Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology vol. 29, (pp1-28).

Photograph of an Innukshuk at Toronto Airport.

The interior of the Arts & Crafts Shop [Rankin Inlet, NU]. Part of the "Inuit of Keewatin" series (#28b.).

Comments on the role that visual imagery plays in the construction of culture.

Book review of 10 books: Indians Are Us: Culture and Genocide in Native North America by Ward Churchill. Thresholds of Differences: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory by Julia Emberly. Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada edited by Diane Englestad and John Bird. Arctic Dreams and Nightmares by Alootook Ipellie. The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories: The Original Tsimshian Texts of Henry Tate by Ralph Maud. Ethnophilosophical and Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on the Huron Soul by Michael Pomedli.

Description and discussion of human and other effigy sites.

Photograph depicts a cairn built near Rankin [Inlet, NU].

Discusses a pictograph site on the Churchill River; article includes maps, photos and an entry from Alexander Mackenzie’s journal describing the rock painting and its location. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 30.

Discusses prehistoric arctic art, modern Inuit sculpture, imagery, materials, methods and regional styles.

Discusses cataloguing and development of computer oriented categories for rock paintings.

A carved stone representing a bison calf's head.

Distinctively carved stone with three faces found by Bad Lake, Saskatchewan suggests possibility of prehistoric occupation or early migration from the south.

New rock varnish technique of cation-ratio dating determines that petroglyphs in California are older than previously thought.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000.

Archaeology and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2011.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2000.

Chemistry Thesis (Ph.D.)-- Texas A & M University, 1994.

Discusses the significance of the symbol and examines a specific example found in Blackfoot rock art.

Notes a running dog likeness scratched on rock found on Kutdlek Island.

Comments on pictographs created between 3-7,000 years ago at the Xa:ytem Longhouse Interpretive Centre which was designated a National Historic Site in 1992.

An overhang with pictographs at Proctor's Narrows, [Kipahigan Lake,] Sask.

A pictograph of a bull and a multi-legged creature at Proctor's Narrows. Kipahigan Lake, Sask.

A pictograph of a small animal at Proctor's Narrows. Kipahigan Lake, Sask.

Pictographs at Proctor's Narrows. Kipahigan Lake, Sask.

A rock overhang with pictographs at Proctor's Narrows, [Kipahigan Lake,] Saskatchewan.

From left to right: faces 4, 5, and 6 - pictographs at Proctor's Narrows. Kipahigan Lake, Sask.

Pictographs at Proctor's Narrows, [Kipahigan Lake,] Saskatchewan.

Discusses how and when mud glyph caves were utilized by Native Americans for resource exploitation and burial ritual activity.

Review of the history and style, spanning several thousand years

Book review of: Glyphs and Gallows: The Rock Art of Clo-oose and the Wreck of the John Bright by Peter Johnson. To access this review, scroll to page 117.

"From the Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895 ..."

Petroglyphs are located along routes of deer migration which suggest a connection to hunting and perhaps hunting-magic.

Discusses the changing depictions of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) in the stories and images and compares Indigenous to non-Indigenous representations.

Examines the use of language in the identification of Native American artifacts and the stereotypes that are perpetuated by their usage.

Book review of:Indian Art Traditions of the Northwest Coast by Roy L. Carlson. To read review, scroll to page 77.

This booklet lists Aboriginal boulder effigy sites in North America, with emphasis on Saskatchewan. Sites included are Minton, Onion Lake and Ogema, all in Saskatchewan, and Steveville and Cluny, in Alberta. It also lists other stone configurations made on the soil.

Contextualizes Chief Pasqua's recently rediscovered pictographs, that add to our knowledge about the western numbered treaty process.