Venue / Location:
Glenbow Museum, 130 - 9 Avenue S.E.
Ticket Price:
Adult (18+) $14, Senior (65+) $10, Student (with valid ID) $9, Youth (ages 7-17) $9, Family (2 adults, up to 4 youth) $28, Child (Ages 6 and under) Free, Glenbow Museum Members Free!
Event Description:
Kaahsinnooniksi Ao’toksisawooyawa, Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit: Reconnections with Historic Blackfoot Shirts, from the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University, five hide shirts decorated with porcupine quills, paint and human hair believed acquired in the 1840s by employees of the Hudson’s Bay Company during their travels and encounters with the First Nations people.
Photo: Blackfoot Shirt with Porcupine Quill Decoration and Painted Images of War Deeds. No date. Collection of Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.
