Materials

pencil drawing; wove paper

Motifs and Patterns

This is a sketch of Ojibwa dancers performing a Sioux dance for Lord Lorne,who was on a tour of Canada with his wife, the Princess Louise.A large Union Jack dominates the background, and the clothing or regalia of the dancers and Native viewers is varied.

Other Notes

Removed from: Sketchbook: "Canada 1878 North-West 1881."

The conservation number WED 2345 is written on this work but there is no conservation report.

This work is signed and dated with an inscription in pen and black ink on the front upper left: Chippeways dancing the Sioux dance at Rat Portage; in pencil on the front lower left is written: Squaws and papooses; center on flag: CHIEF/MANITO; upper center:...arch; in pencil, on the front, 3 of July; in pencil, front upper right: 1799.

Copy negative 1984-045 C-012865

Dimensions: 0 × 38 × 30.2 cm

Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Library and Archives Canada record

Current Location: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Mikan no. 2833349

Link to Institution's Collections Database: collectionscanada.gc.ca

Date of Acquisition by the Institution: 1984

Who the Institution Acquired the Relative or Heritage Item From: Received through H.P. Biggar, London, England, and Richard Fitch, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 1878-1887

Collection Narratives and Histories

This work is from a scrapbook entitled "Canada 1878, Northwest 1881" consisting of drawings and watercolours done by Sydney Prior Hall while on a tour of Canada with the Marquis of Lorne in 1878, when he arrived in company with his wife, the Princess Louise, to take up his post as Governor-General of Canada, and while on a tour of the Canadian Northwest with the Marquis of Lorne in 1881 to promote settlement and to views the progress of railway construction.

Exhibition History

Exhibition title: Image of Canada / Visage du Canada. Curators: Michael Bell, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1972.01.19 - 1972.03.15, cat. no.: no. 49. Further venue: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; 1972.08.10 - 1972.09.30.

Further venue: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario; 1972.11.16 - 1973.01.13.

Further venue: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; 1973.02.04 - 1973.02.24.

Further venue: Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1973.03.19 - 1973.04.22.

Further venue: Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta; 1973.10.01 - 1973.10.31.

Further venue: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia; 1973.12.01 - 1973.12.31.

Further venue: Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, British Colombia; 1974.01.15 - 1974.02.15.

Further venue: Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland; 1974.04.01 - 1974.04.30.

Further venue: Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick; 1974.05.15 - 1974.06.15.

Further venue: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 1974.09.15 - 1974.10.01.

Further venue: International Exhibition Foundation, Washington D.C.; 1975.

Exhibition title: 150 Years of Art in Manitoba. Curators: Ferdinand Eckhart, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba; 1970.05.01 - 1970.08.31, cat. no.: no. 61.

Comment on Source of Exhibition & Publication Data

Library and Archives Canada record

GKS Reference Number: 730