Image of an Aboriginal couple standing on a blanket dressed in ceremonial style clothing. They are holding a Canadian Ensign, staff, pipe stem and blanket. A horse stands in the background with an intricately woven blanket draped over its back.
Eagle Feather News, vol. 11, no. 3, March 2008, p. 15
Description
Comments on the beautiful jackets, mittens, mukluks, etc. that are crafted by an Elder in northern Saskatchewan.
Article located by scrolling to page 15.
Caucasian woman in suit, with two young First Nations women in dressy outfits featuring beads, fringes and moccasins, April 26, 1950. Part of Kinsmen series B 4014 to 19.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, 1988, pp. 17-37
Description
Chronicles the changes of unique forms of dress using seven periods within the study time frame, including paintings up to 1857 and after that, photographs.
A photograph of Chief Eagle from Whitecap Indian Reserve, as he opens Young Canada Book Week in the Children's reading area, 2nd floor of the Main Branch of the Saskatoon Public Library. He wears feathered headdress and buckskin with bead work and fringes. Two Aboriginal women and four non-Aboriginal children are in the photo as well.
A photograph of an Aboriginal man in ceremonial regalia (buckskin suit with applied beadwork and feather headdress trailing to ground). Identified as Chief Swimmer (Yahyahnum), Chief of Sweetgrass band approx. 1925 - 1955. He was last traditional Chief of that reserve. After him, chiefs were elected.
ack of photo: Group of Cree Indians in gala attire, taken at the paying of Treaty money at File Hills Reserve. The dresses are very brilliant. The tall man at back of group is wearing an overall of vivid blue. The white cuffs and all cross stitch patterns are their own handiwork. Tiny white beads very closely and evenly sewn together forming the background for cross stitch diamonds, the squares and fringes done in brightly colored beads. The old man wearing a fur cap is a Chief, his name is Star Blanket. The very old man sitting in the centre is quite blind and over a hundred years old.
Material Culture Review, vol. 56, Fall, 2002, pp. 54-62
Description
Discusses the difficulties involved in balancing conservation concerns with providing appropriate access to the Aboriginal peoples whose ancestors created the items.
Arctic, vol. 40, no. 4, Fortieth Anniversary Special, December 1987, pp. 358-359
Description
Book review of: Collected Paper on the Human History of the Northwest Territories. Occasional Paper No. 1 edited by Margaret Jean Patterson, Charles D. Arnold and Robert R. Janes.
Mouse over images to link to: household life (includes clothing, cooking, preserving food, etc.), village information (homes), resource gathering, society (includes role of elders and chiefs, governance, naming), gatherings (includes dancing and singing, trade), stages of life, and games.
American Anthropologist, vol. 106, no. 3, New Series, September 2004, pp. 595-599
Description
Review essay of an exhibition, Across Borders: Beadwork in Iroquois Life, that examines the artistic, cultural and political significance of beadwork in both traditional and contemporary Iroquois culture.
B.C. based organization lists "three native nations": Shuswap, Carrier, and Tsilihqot'in. The website has pictures from museum displays of First Nations buckskins and other crafts.
A photograph of a camp of Cree people on the prairie, probably sometime between 1890 and 1930. Many wear western clothing, some women with formal dresses and caps. A man with his back to camera wears some traditional clothing adorned with feathers. Picture possibly taken by George Mann family who worked with Cree people in Onion Lake, Saddle Lake and Hobbema reserves between 1883 and 1916. Members of the family were known to continue to visit these areas well into the 1920s.
A photograph of a Cree wedding party travelling by wagon taken during Christina Bateman and Annie McKay's journey from Prince Albert to La Ronge, Saskatchewan. The Cree man with his back to the camera is the women's companion, Willie Bear.
A group photo of Cree women and children at La Ronge. Taken during the journey of Christina Bateman and Annie McKay from Prince Albert to La Ronge, SK in 1919.
Museum Anthropology, vol. 31, no. 1, Spring, 2008, pp. 1-18
Description
Discusses how mass-produced clothing has been indigenized by its use to display familial symbols, affiliations with places and organizations, and commemorate significant events like potlatches.
Explores the problematic relationship between traditional cultural expressions and intellectual property law (particularly copyright), which fails to protect them and puts most of them in the public domain, and outlines some proposals for concrete policy, legal and practical solutions to end appropriation.
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 42, no. 1, 2005, pp. 33-47
Description
Argues that unique dance clothing and shamanistic garments existed in this culture, but had disappeared by the 1930s. Due to collaborative fieldwork, the style has since been resurrected.
A photograph of a First Nations dancer in traditional garb at a ceremony to celebrate the giving of a totem pole to the City of Prince Albert, 1975. The pole was carved by a First Nations man originally from British Columbia, and currently stands along the North Saskatchewan River near the Prince Albert Historical Museum.
A photograph of First Nations dancers (adults and children), in traditional garb,and a drum circle, at a ceremony to celebrate the giving of a totem pole to the City of Prince Albert, 1975. The pole was carved by a First Nations man originally from British Columbia, and currently stands along the North Saskatchewan River near the Prince Albert Historical Museum.
A photograph of First Nations dancers in traditional garb at a ceremony to celebrate the giving of a totem pole to the City of Prince Albert, 1975. The pole was carved by a First Nations man originally from British Columbia, and currently stands along the North Saskatchewan River near the Prince Albert Historical Museum.
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Cory Willmott
Description
Argues that incorporating traditional elements into modern designs has produced an expression of "intertribal nationhood".
Chapter eight from The Force of Fashion in Politics and Society: Global Perspectives from Early Modern to Contemporary Times edited by Beverly Lemire.