Material Type

Artifact

Other Name

MACQUETTE (SET)

Date

1985

Materials

PAPER

No. Pieces

2

Length

201.2

Width

36.0

Description

ILLUSTRATION BOARD, WATERCOLOUR PAPER. VARIOUS COLOURS. 3 WATER COLOUR PAINTINGS, 2 PAPERS STORYLINES. GLUED TO WHITE ILLUSTRATION BOARD. 1ST PAGE: AS YOU LOOK TO YOUR RIGHT, ACROSS THE OLDMAN RIVER VALLEY, YOU WILL SEE THE COULEE INTO WHICH THE SIXTH AVENUE BRIDGE CULMINATES. IN THE FALL OF 1870, A SMALL POX RAVAGED BLACKFOOT NATION FOUGHT HOSTILE CREE ATTACKERS BETWEEN THIS COULEE AND THE ONE IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF IT. SURPRISED AT DAYBREAK, THE BLACKFOOT CAMP VALIANTLY PURSUED THEIR FOE UNTIL THEY WITHDREW FROM THE PLAINS ABOVE TO THE NEAREST, DEEPEST COULEE. THERE THE BATTLE RAGED FOR ABOUT FOUR HOURS. THE NOISE AROUSED NEIGHBORING BLOOD AND PEIGAN CAMPS FROM ALL ALONG THE RIVER. IN TWOS AND THREES THEY ARRIVED, AMONG THEM THE LATER-FAMOUS JERRY POTTS AND BLOOD CHIEF RED CROW. SOON THE CREES WERE ROUTED FROM THEIR COULEE BASE AND FORCED TO RETREAT ACROSS THE RIVER. 2ND PAGE: AVAILABLE INFORMATION ON THE BATTLE DESCRIBES A CLIFF OVER WHICH THE RETREATING CREES HAD FLED. IT IS LIKELY THE CREES HAD FOLLOWED THE TREES NORTH FOR COVER, UNTIL THERE WERE NO MORE. SCRAMBLING OVER THE STEEP BANK, THEY SWAM THE RIVER, EXPOSED AND VULNERABLE TO THEIR INCENSED PURSUERS. IT WAS HERE A GREAT NUMBER OF THE CREE WARRIORS PERISHED. BY NIGHTFALL, LESS THAN A DOZEN CREE REMAINED OF THE HUNDREDS IN THE WAR PARTY. THESE FEW SOUGHT REFUGE IN THE THICKENING TREES NEAR WHERE A CAIRN NOW MARKS WILLIAM STAFFORD'S FIRST MINE. THE BLACKFOOT NATION RESOLVED TO ALLOW THE CREE SURVIVORS TO ESCAPE TO RETURN HOME, TO TELL THEIR STORY. YOU ARE INVITED TO SHARE IN THIS STIRRING HISTORY, TO SEE AND ENJOY OUR LOVELY INDIAN BATTLE PARK. IF THE ROCKS COULD BUT SPEAK, WHAT STORIES THEY COULD TELL *NOTE* NOT FOUND DURING 2015 INVENTORY .2 MURAL WORK-UP. 36 CM WTH X 73.5 ILLUSTRATION BOARD, PAPER. GALT MUSEUM MURAL MACQUETTE "BY SANDY MCCLIMANS" 6 SMALL SHEETS DESCRIBING PANELS, "MATERIALS, BACKING" "SIZE, WEIGHT, COLOR", INSULATION, MAINTENANCE LIGHTING", "TIMELINE", "REFERENCES CONSULTED" GLUED TO ILLUSTRATION BOARD.

Subjects

ART

Historical Association

FINE ARTS

History

NO COPY OF PROPOSAL INCLUDED. THIS MURAL WAS NOT SELECTED BY THE URBAN PARKS - MUSEUM COMMITTE IN THE 1985 COMPETITION, FOR THE MUSEUM VIEWING GALLERY. *UPDATE* IN 2015 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS. SHE FOUND THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTIST, SANDY MCCLIMANS, IN A LETHBRIDGE HERALD PROFILE FROM SEPTEMBER 5, 1985. MCCLIMANS WAS BORN IN OHIO, MOVING TO CANADA WITH HER HUSBAND JIM IN 1967. THEY LIVED IN QUEBEC AND BRITISH COLUMBIA BEFORE MOVING TO ALBERTA IN 1976. WHILE LIVING IN COALHURST MCCLIMANS COMPLETED COMMISSIONS FOR THE LETHBRIDGE COURT HOUSE AND SOUTHLAND NURSING HOME, AND ENROLLED IN CLASSES THROUGH THE LETHBRIDGE COLLEGE. HER PAINTINGS GENERALLY DEPICT ANIMALS AND NATURAL SUBJECTS. SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR HARDCOPY OF ARTICLE.

Catalogue Number

P19860059000

Acquisition Date

1985

Collection

Museum

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