Blackfoot War Art

Blackfoot War Art
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 532
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ISBN-10 : 0806138041
ISBN-13 : 9780806138046
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Blackfoot War Art by : Lloyd James Dempsey

In this survey, L. James Dempsey, a member of the Blood tribe, plumbs the breadth and depth of warrior representational art. He has mined archival resources and museum collections and interviewed many tribal members to provide a uniquely Native perspective on the importance of warrior art in Blackfoot history and culture. Filled with 160 images of startling beauty and power, Blackfoot War Art tells how pictographs served as a record of both tribal and personal accomplishment. This singular historical record of all available information on Blackfoot warrior pictography depicts painted robes; war tepee covers, liners, and doors; and painted panels. Dempsey provides descriptions and a great deal of other information about the pieces included here. His survey focuses especially on recent paintings that scholars have overlooked.

Blackfoot War Art

Blackfoot War Art
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 517
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ISBN-10 : 9780806155890
ISBN-13 : 0806155892
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Blackfoot War Art by : L. James Dempsey

When the Blackfoot Indians were confined to reservations in the late nineteenth century, their pictographic representations of warfare kept alive the rituals associated with war, which were essential facets of Blackfoot culture. Their war ethic served as a unifying force among the four tribes of the Blackfoot nation—Siksika, Blood, and North and South Piegan. In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey, a member of the Blood tribe, plumbs the breadth and depth of warrior representational art. He has mined archival resources and museum collections and interviewed many tribal members to provide a uniquely Native perspective on the importance of warrior art in Blackfoot history and culture. Filled with 160 images of startling beauty and power, Blackfoot War Art tells how pictographs served as a record of both tribal and personal accomplishment. This singular historical record of all available information on Blackfoot warrior pictography depicts painted robes; war tepee covers, liners, and doors; and painted panels. Dempsey provides descriptions and a great deal of other information about the pieces included here. His survey focuses especially on recent paintings that scholars have overlooked. In revealing changing trends in the representation of war, Dempsey skillfully weaves together pictures, people, and histories to convey a fascinating view of this warrior art from a Blood perspective.

War Paint

War Paint
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0888544081
ISBN-13 : 9780888544087
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis War Paint by : Arni Brownstone

Blackfoot and Sarcee Painted Buffalo Robes in the Royal Ontario Museum Arni Brownstone Blackfoot tradition, art, and culture as told through six historic buffalo robes chronicling the tribal-war exploits of eight warrior-painters.

Art Or Memorial?

Art Or Memorial?
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Publisher : Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X030108168
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Art Or Memorial? by : Laura Brandon

The Canadian War Museum possesses one of the finest twentieth-century official war art collections in the world. Until relatively recently, however, the collection has received limited public attention. In Art or Memorial?, author Laura Brandon explores some of the reasons why this may have been the case. At various times throughout its history, the war art collection has receded from and re-emerged in the nation's collective consciousness. Nevertheless, as an invaluable part of the official record of war in Canada, it is profoundly significant. Brandon argues that the value of the collection lies less in its artistic merit and more in its role as a site of memory. Art or Memorial? seeks to illuminate Canadian war art's sometimes-hidden presence in the nation's memory and to show, through both its presence and its absence, how it helped to shape, and will continue to influence, how we remember as a nation.

Visiting with the Ancestors

Visiting with the Ancestors
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Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Total Pages : 232
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781771990370
ISBN-13 : 1771990376
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Visiting with the Ancestors by : Laura Peers

In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had remained ever since. Exhibiting the shirts at the museums was, however, only one part of the project undertaken by Laura Peers and Alison Brown. Prior to the installation of the exhibits, groups of Blackfoot people—hundreds altogether—participated in special “handling sessions,” in which they were able to touch the shirts and examine them up close. The shirts, some painted with mineral pigments and adorned with porcupine quillwork, others decorated with locks of human and horse hair, took the breath away of those who saw, smelled, and touched them. Long-dormant memories were awakened, and many of the participants described a powerful sense of connection and familiarity with the shirts, which still house the spirit of the ancestors who wore them. In the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume is the story of an effort to build a bridge between museums and source communities, in hopes of establishing stronger, more sustaining relationships between the two and spurring change in prevailing museum policies. Negotiating the tension between a museum’s institutional protocol and Blackfoot cultural protocol was challenging, but the experience described both by the authors and by Blackfoot contributors to the volume was transformative. Museums seek to preserve objects for posterity. This volume demonstrates that the emotional and spiritual power of objects does not vanish with the death of those who created them. For Blackfoot people today, these shirts are a living presence, one that evokes a sense of continuity and inspires pride in Blackfoot cultural heritage.

Blackfoot Ways of Knowing

Blackfoot Ways of Knowing
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Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Total Pages : 257
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781552381090
ISBN-13 : 1552381099
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Blackfoot Ways of Knowing by : Betty Bastien

Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. In sharing her personal story of "coming home" to reclaim her identity within that culture, Betty Bastien offers us a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experiencing the world.

The Story of the Blackfoot People

The Story of the Blackfoot People
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 177085181X
ISBN-13 : 9781770851818
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis The Story of the Blackfoot People by : The Glenbow Museum

Previously published in 2001 with title: Nitsitapiisinni: the story of the Blackfoot people.

Blackfoot Lodge Tales

Blackfoot Lodge Tales
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:606376571
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Blackfoot Lodge Tales by : George Bird Grinnell

The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture

The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 410
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ISBN-10 : 1258154366
ISBN-13 : 9781258154363
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture by : John C. Ewers

Fools Crow

Fools Crow
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 404
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0140089373
ISBN-13 : 9780140089370
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Fools Crow by : James Welch

In the Two Medicine territory of Montana, the Pikuni Indians are forced to choose between fighting a futile war or accepting a humiliating surrender, as the encroaching numbers of whites threaten their very existence