Painting on Canvas
Blackfoot, Alberta, Canada
This work is one section of a series of such paintings which hung in the Prince of Wales Hotel in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. This park is adjacent to Glacier National Park in Montana and is close to the Peigan and Blood Reserves in Alberta and the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. Individuals from these tribes have always been important to the park's interpretative programs.
In pre-reservation days, warriors depicted their war deeds on buffalo robes, tipi covers, or interior tipi liners. Later, muslin and canvas obtained from traders or government agents were used to record battle scenes, horse raids, and other examples of individual valor as seen in this painting. Only the person who had done these actions had the right to record them.
ca. 1940, canvas, commercial paint
Glenbow Museum, acc. AF 3808.
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