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Major John Norton (Mohawk Chief Teyoninhokarawen)

April 30, 2024
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"Portrait Of Major John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen). Historical paintings portraying Indigenous people are frequently loaded with harmful, colonial stereotypes. Major John Norton was a British colonial officer of mixed European and Cherokee heritage w...
Paul Rombough
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Mi’kmaq hunter representation

April 30, 2024
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A modern, more ethnographically accurate 1920 update of an earlier 1796 rendition of the hunting, fishing, and gathering tools of Acadians, or what could have been the Mi'kmaq people. ...
Paul Rombough
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Inside a wigwam

April 30, 2024
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A drawing of the inside of a wigwam, which is the traditional dwelling used in the daily life of an Algonquian family. ...
Leanna Di Fulvio
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Arrival of Jacques Cartier at Stadacona, 1535

April 30, 2024
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A Victorian-era watercolour illustration of Jacques Cartier's arrival in Stadacona, which was traditional Iroquoian territory in the 1500s. Note that the Iroquois had boats and were fishing in that area, but that they were known to fish even further...
Paul Rombough
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Roman Wedding Relief Sculpture

April 29, 2024
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A marble relief of a wedding scene: veiled bride followed by pronuba clasps hands with groom before altar; on the left a huge male carries the sacrificial bull on his shoulder, on the right a maenad dances. ...
Christine Truesdale
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