Big Bear Medicine
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactaud.12.01
- Date
- 1998
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- AuD.12.01
- Description
- A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four …
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- Title
- Big Bear Medicine
- Date
- 1998
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92.5 x 92.5 cm
- Description
- A large painting of an Indigenous dressed as a bear. The man’s face is visible through the mouth of the bear fur that covers him. The man’s eyes are hidden by shadows. Yellow and black paint is on the rest of his face. In the claws, the man holds a wand-like stick, at the tip of which are four feathers. These are in the blc of the image. On either side of the bear’s head are patches of aquamarine.
- Subject
- religious
- Indigenous
- animal
- bear
- Credit
- Purchased from Bernie Makokis, St. Paul, 2001
- Catalogue Number
- AuD.12.01
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Eagle Lodge Offering
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactaud.12.02
- Date
- 1999
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Catalogue Number
- AuD.12.02
- Description
- Un-framed acrylic on canvas entitled “eagle Lodge Offering”, 1999. All four sides are painted black with staples that are visible. The main image depicts a bird with red and white coloured sticks coming out of its mouth. The bird is perched on a white textured object (possibly a skull). The bird h…
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- Title
- Eagle Lodge Offering
- Date
- 1999
- Medium
- acrylic on canvas
- Dimensions
- 62.5 x 62.5 cm
- Description
- Un-framed acrylic on canvas entitled “eagle Lodge Offering”, 1999. All four sides are painted black with staples that are visible. The main image depicts a bird with red and white coloured sticks coming out of its mouth. The bird is perched on a white textured object (possibly a skull). The bird has a dot of red paint in its eye. The colour palette of this painting is very typical Auger: red, turquoise, yellow /gold, black and white.
- Credit
- Gift of Jim and Sue Van der Sloot, Medicine Hat , 2010
- Catalogue Number
- AuD.12.02
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