Category: Object

Memory Fades (La mémoire est une faculté qui oublie)

Late October

Mitris (1920-2009), an heteroclite artist who explored as much the abstract as the figurative, painted many “surreal” landscapes inspired by the boreal forest and the Abitibi countryside. He […]

Log Driver Boots With Studded Sole

As the only means of communication with the outside world in the 19th century, the Témiscamingue’s watercourses have long been the way to drive wood logs south for […]

Baby Loons

Frank Polson is an Indigenous artist doing visual arts from art Winneway. His work is known for insisting on animals linked to the earth by a thread. Frank […]

Space Rhapsody

Indigenous Handcraft (Kim Welna)

A dream catcher made during a workshop with kids from the Pikogan community in 1995.

Indigenous Handcraft (Kim Welna)

A dream catcher.

Stone Pipe Bowl With an Anthropomorphic Figure

This steatite pipe was found at an old trading post around Duparquet Lake and would be from the Late Woodland period, between 750 and 350 BP (before present). […]

Carbide Lamp for a Miner

This type of lamp was fixed on the miner’s helmet. A gift from M. Georges Garon, mine captain. It was used between 1925 and 1930.

Lis (Lily)

Pottery Pieces Made From Terracotta

These shards (or fragments) of pottery made of fired clay come from Abitibi Lake and are of type ‘Blackduck’. They are from the Late Woodland period (1100 to […]

Trinkets as Adornments

On this plank, there are adornments from several sites of Abitibi Lake. Those artefacts are from the historical period, probably in the 18th century  300 years BP (before […]