Sunday, October 01, 2006


Winnipeg Jack, Blackfoot, North West Mounted Police scout and interpreter, about 1890
Silver salts on paper - Gelatin silver process
23 x 18 cm
© McCord Museum

5 comments:

  1. Amazing how dark he is. You don't often see native peoples now adays who have that intense deep hue

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  2. Anonymous8:25 a.m.

    I know, it speaks of a seeping in nature, of a toughening and smoothening.

    Like a rock.

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  3. i love the foothills in the background. definite blackfoot country--montana, southern and central AB.

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  4. There are spots in Saskatchewan, too, that remind me very much of this image. Around the Qu'appelle Valley, and several places between Regina and Saskatoon.

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  5. right, right... the cypress hills, too, in southern SK. the highest point in canada between the rockies and labrador.

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