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This warm and soft reversible blanket features a design by Anishinaabe artist Tehatsistahawi (Tsista) Kennedy.
ABOUT THE DESIGN: In the centre of the blanket stands the Dust Fan Wampum Belt, also known as the Everlasting Tree Belt. This belt predates colonization, and represents an integral element of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Tree of Peace. The Skydomes represent the Skyworld in our Creation Story, and from where life came. Finally, the outermost rows of this blanket display iconographic representations of people standing hand-in-hand.
152.4 x 203.2 cm (60 x 80 in.)
20% recycled wool, 30% acrylic, 50% recycled polyester
Wash on cold, hang to dry
Designed, cut & sewn in Canada
Brian Jungen (b. 1970)
Vienna, 2003
Jungen is renowned for repurposing objects from contemporary culture to reflect Indigenous concerns. Meant to resemble the skeleton of a whale, an endangered animal considered by many Indigenous peoples to be of great spiritual power, Vienna is constructed out of inexpensive patio chairs made of plastic, an indestructible material.
9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.)
In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.
Clarence Gagnon (1881-1942)
Village in the Laurentian Mountains, 1925
Gagnon is best known for his rural Quebec landscape paintings. Although he trained and maintained a studio in Paris for much of his career, he never lost his love of the Laurentians and the Charlevoix region of eastern Quebec, which inspired many of his paintings.
9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.)
In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.