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- Title
Ossements animaux dans l'art autochtone actuel. discours sur la mort, la résurgence et la guérison.
- Authors
Marcoux, Gabrielle
- Abstract
Ancestral Atikamekw and Innu cultures use animal bones in a large array of practical and ritualistic means, including spiritual, dietary, and artistic practices. To this day, in addition to evoking death, for Indigenous peoples, bones offer communication with the animal spirits such as scapulimancy and holistic Indigenous worldviews. Artists Sonia Robertson and Eruoma Awashish integrate fragments of animal skeletons and skins into their artwork which tackle harsh realities of personal, cultural and territorial loss and negotiation, in an attempt to conjure anew the power of healing and rebirth traditionally attached to those bones. Notions of loss are therefore overcome and the current relevance of ancestral Indigenous notions of spirituality, identity, and culture are reinstated in a context of collective and individual reaffirmation.
- Subjects
AWASHISH, Eruoma; ROBERTSON, Sonia; BONES in art; FIRST Nations art; INNU (North American people); ATIKAMEKW (North American people); ANIMISM; SCAPULIMANCY; FOLKLORE
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2015, Vol 45, Issue 2/3, p25
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1038039ar