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Painting the "Soft Knife": Harry Wedge's Colonial Canvas

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Gaynor Macdonald
Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 21, no. 1-2, March 2005, pp. 98-115
Description
Looks at an artist whose paintings examine colonial history, Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal interactions, and everyday life.
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Paints 2 (Blood Indian)

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview that describes the preparation of paint.
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Paints (Blood Indian)

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview that describes how the paints are gathered and prepared as well as the uses of the different paints.
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Papunya Stories

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tim Bonyhady
Australian Humanities Review, no. 20, December 2000, p. [?]
Description
Comments on several books written about the art of Papunya, west of Alice Springs.
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Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jeremy Long
Aboriginal History , vol. 26, 2002, pp. 242-245
Description
Book review of: Papunya Tula edited by Hannah Fink and Hetti Perkins. Review located by scrolling to page 242.
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Paris/Ojibwa: Interview with Robert Houle

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Denise Frimer
Robert Houle
C Magazine, no. 112, Winter, 2011, pp. 23-28
Description
Artist discusses his international research project and the exhibition which resulted from it.
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Paul Kane Goes West

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Gerald Budner
Description
Presents a visual impression of Indigenous life and customs through use of original sketches and paintings by the 19th-century Canadian painter. Duration: 14:28.
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Paul Kane’s “Wanderings”

Articles » General
Author/Creator
G. W . Snelgrove
Saskatchewan History, vol. 4, no. 3, Spring, 1951, pp. 102-106
Description
Describes the travels and work of the artist and adventurer who was commissioned by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) to sketch portraits of Indigenous peoples. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 102.
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Perehudoff painting, at Batoche Museum.

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
William Perehudoff
Description
Image of painting by Perehudoff which hangs in the museum at Batoche. The painting depicts the Northcote hitting the lowered ferry cables, May 9, 1885.
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Perehudoff Painting at Batoche, Riel w/ Cross

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
William Perehudoff
Description
Photograph of Perehudoff a painting which hangs in the Batoche Museum. The images depicts Riel riding on horseback through the gun pits yielding a cross above his head.
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Pererhudoff painting 2, Batoche museum

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
W. Perehudoff
Description
Image of painting by Perehudoff hung at the Museum at Batoche. Depicts fighting, men with rifles, one on horseback, possibly at Duck Lake.
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Peter Chamberlain Interview #1

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Peter Chamberlain
David Stevenson
Agnes Chamberlain
Indian History Film Project
Description
Discussion about the meanings of various Indian words in English ; family relationships ; and the cannibal dance known as Hamatsa. Mentions a fire in Katit, British Columbia in 1935.
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Pigeon Society 2

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview about various aspects of the Pigeon Society; the role of various members; women in the society; competing for wives; the Crow Carriers Society; the Brave Society including a story of a fight against the Cree when the enemy was scared away by the dancing of the Braves; and the Scaping dance.
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Pigeon Society of the Blood Indian

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
George First Rider
John Hellson
Indian History Film Project
Description
Consists of an interview about the acquisition of the Pigeon Society by the Blood Indians; the ceremonials of the Pigeon Society, including the transfer of bundles.
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Placing Aboriginal Art at the National Gallery of Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Whitelaw
Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 31, no. 1, [Special Issue: Culture, Heritage, and Art], 2006, pp. 197-214
Description
Discusses the challenges associated with displaying historical objects in a gallery, such as the presentation of works from a non-Indigenous conception of artistic value.
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Plains Indian Ledger Art

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Department of Ethnic Studies
UCSD
Description
Website presents digital images of an ever expanding collection of ledger art.
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Pocahontas Looks Back and Then Looks Elsewhere: The Entangled Gaze in Contemporary Indigenous Art

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Monika Siebert
ab-Original, vol. 2, no. 2, The Entangled Gaze, 2018, pp. 207-226
Description
Author provides a historical analysis of “the returned gaze” in art by examining different images of Pocahontas beginning with Simon van de Passe's 1616 engraving Matoaka als Lady Rebecca; discusses how “the returned gaze” is used in contemporary works.
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Portrait of a Vanishing Artist

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Shay Wilson
The Beaver, vol. 90, no. 1, February/March 2010, p. 16
Description
Looks at the disappointment felt by the artist, Mildred Valley Thornton, when the Government of Canada refused to buy her collection of paintings in its entirety.
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Portraits of Dispossession in Plains Indian and Inuit Graphic Arts

Alternate Title
Depictions of the Dispossessed
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Janet Catherine Berlo
Art Journal, vol. 49, no. 2, Summer, 1990, pp. 133-141
Description
Argues that Inuit and Plains graphic arts have expanded the knowledge of others, and looking carefully reveals both Aboriginal and hegemonic cultures.
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Portraits of the Indians

Archival » Archival Items
Author/Creator
Glenbow Alberta Art Gallery
Description
Catalogue of exhibition of works relating to portraits of Aboriginals at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, AB. Works of artists from around the world include Paul Kane, Frederick Verner, Karl Bodmer, Henry Cross, James Henderson and Nicholas de Grandmaison. Exhibition organized by Andrew Oko.
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Poundmaker, Chief Cris

Images » Photographs
Description
Negative of an artists representation of Chief Poundmaker, in traditional costume.
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[Powwow] - Sketches.

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Mac Hone
Description
A series of 31 sketches of Indigenous [dancers] in various poses; done in ink on paper. Some titled sketches are: Iroquois; New Mexico; Canadian; Alaskan.

Historical note:

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"Prairie Belles: from a painting by Roper"

Images » Photographs
Author/Creator
E. Roper
Description
Image depicts two women walking outside of a settlement. Both wear blankets, one with beadwork and the other holding a buffalo horn (?).

Historical note:

Mr. Shepherd was a farmer, author and curator of the Western Development Museum, Saskatoon. His papers consist of personal correspondence, 1938-1977, subject files, 1933-1977; books, 1961-1977 and newspapers. Among the subject files are ones on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Cypress Hills area, Sioux Indians, and the Western Development Museum. The Books section is mainly about books he wrote.
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Priests Killed at Frog Lake

Images » Photographs
Description
Negative of an artist's representation of the killing of priests at Frog Lake by Indigenous men with guns.
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Prince Max Meets the Mandan: The Story of How a German Prince and a Swiss Artist Saved the Cultural Heritage of the Mandan Indians

Alternate Title
Native American Symposium ; 7th, 2007
Sixty-Seven Nations and Counting: Proceedings of the Seventh Native American Symposium
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Shirley Frey
Description
Reviews the ethnological expedition of Prince Maximilian of Wied, and artist Karl Bodmer, and discusses how both men were crucial to preserving the Mandan tribe’s history, culture, and customs.
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Profile of an Artist [Henry Beaudry]

Articles » General
Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 2, no. 9, November 1971, p. 15
Description
Short article about the artist Henry Beaudry of the Mosquito First Nation, Saskatchewan.
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Pudlo Pudlat: Untitled

Alternate Title
An Open Book: A Catalogue of Artworks from the Surrey Art Gallery's Permanent Collection
E-Books
Author/Creator
Marion Jackson
Description
Brief discussion of the Inuit artist's drawing.
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