Visual Arts
Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau
Installation (40 mâts totémiques pour la paix)

A circle, 30 feet in diameter, made up of 40 pine masts approximately 8 inches in diameter and 12 feet high, decorated and sculpted by 5 Aboriginal artists; Jacques Néwashish, Christine Sioui Wawanoloath, Éliane Kistabish, Virginia Pésémapéo-Bordeleau et Gilles Dorais, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the 1701 Great Peace of Montreal, in 2001.
Installation (40 mâts totémiques pour la paix) (detail) (Totemic Masts)
Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau, 2001
Wood and other media.
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