4-0905 ON NORTHERN ALGONQUIAN MATERIAL CULTURE

Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Donald H Holly Jr. (Eastern Illinois University) and Moira McCaffrey (Canadian Museum of Civilization)

Chairs: Donald H Holly Jr. (Eastern Illinois University) and Moira McCaffrey (Canadian Museum of Civilization)

13:45

The “Double Curve”: Giving New Life to Objects From the Past In Two Algonquian Communities

Elise Dubuc (Université de Montréal)

14:00

The Social Life of the Drum: An Ethnographic and Historic Overview of Atikamekw Cosmology

Laurent Jerome (Musée de la Civilisation/ CIÉRA')

14:15

Changing Ideological, Social and Economic Roles of Naskapi Painted Caribou Clothing, 1900-1950

Marilyn Norcini (University of Pennsylvania Museum)

14:30

Coat Stories: Painted Hide Coats From Northern Algonquian Territories

Sherry Farrell Racette (University of Manitoba)

14:45

A Creative Process: The Material Culture of the Mistissini Cree, Northern Quebec

Francois Guindon (University of Aberdeen)

15:00

Furs, Feathers, Fringes and Beads: The Modern Imagining of Traditional Cree Clothing

Cath Oberholtzer (Trent University)

15:15

The Innu Path

Rita Mestokosho (Conseil des Innus de Ekuanitshit)

15:30

Break

15:45

Architecture without Rooms. Northern Canadian Cree Nomadic Dwellings, and Their Implications for Sociability and Privacy

Adrian Tanner (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador)

16:00

Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives On the Cardinal Orientation of Cree Lodges

David Denton (Cree Regional Authority) and Dario Izaguirre (Cree Regional Authority)

16:15

My Cache or Yours: Extreme Mobility, Managing Risk, and Food Storage In Northeastern Algonquian Societies

Marianne Stopp (Parks Canada)

16:30

Today and Long Ago: A Cree Tradition of Rough and Ground Stone Tools

Francis Marcoux (Cree Regional Authority)

16:45

Flyway to the Happy Island: Beothuk Bone Pendants and Avian Imagery

Donald H Holly Jr. (Eastern Illinois University) and Todd Kristensen (University Of Alberta)

17:00

People, Places and Preconceptions: Early Northern Algonquian Material Culture

Moira McCaffrey (Canadian Museum of Civilization)

17:15

Discussion

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