the moose hide has been tanned and smoked

Chief's headdress with a carved frontlet and long train with ermine skins. [CAK 10/02/2010]

Buffalo calf skin drum. Skin is lashed to the bottom of the frame with sinew, four strips of which are twisted into the centre and tied together in a large knot. The top rim is painted with a band of black and red and the top surface has four black V-shapes placed on opposing sides and a red crescent in the centre. Inscription on inside of wood frame.

Multi-media installation. The doll (a) consists of a wooden artist’s maquette body with brain-tanned deer hide head (no facial features), hand coverings, and dress (with fringes at sleeves and decorated with English and Cree text written in pink gel-pen ink), pink and yellow cut-glass seed beads sewn onto dress and moccasin boots, horse hair braids with white satin ribbon, ncecklace of porcupine quill, brass bead and sinew, clam shell earrings, and a belt with large brass buttons. The doll sits in a chair (part b) constructed of deer hide, wood, and sinew, and face a small LCD screen, which fastens to a wooden base (part c), and plays a video loop, with video and audio footage created by the artist.