How artist Paul Kane chronicled Indigenous people and landscapes during an epic journey across Canada
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“HE DID NOT, HOWEVER, fall, but stopped and faced me, pawing the earth, bellowing and glaring savagely at me. The blood was stream-ing profusely from his mouth, and I thought he would soon drop. The position in which he stood was so fine that I could not resist the desire of making a sketch.”
And sketch Paul Kane did on that June day in 1846, several days’ ride south of present-day Winnipeg, with Métis hunters and thousands of bison thundering around him in a maelstrom of excitement and confusion — even though seconds later the bison he’d just shot would charge, prompting the artist to spring back onto his horse and make a narrow escape.
Diese Geschichte stammt aus der September-October 2019-Ausgabe von Canadian Geographic.
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Diese Geschichte stammt aus der September-October 2019-Ausgabe von Canadian Geographic.
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