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:

CaptainGoldStar said...

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

Anonymous said...

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

Like a rock.

Lorne Roberts said...

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

D. Sky Onosson said...

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.

Lorne Roberts said...

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