Notes de recherche

• Published in: Recherches amérindiennes au Québec
• Main Author: Marcoux, Gabrielle
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: French
• Published: Recherches amérindiennes au Québec 2022
• Subjects: Sciences Humaines et Sociales; Social Sciences and Humanities; art autochtone actuel; ossements; Sonia Robertson; Eruoma Awashish; esprits animaux; contemporary Aboriginal art; bones; animal spirits; arte indígena actual; osamentas; espíritus animales; anthro-se; art; Sonia; atikamekw
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7202/1038039ar; https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1038039ar

Ancestral Atikamekw and Innu cultures use animal bones in a large array of practical and ritualistic means, including spiritual, dietary, and artistic practices. To this day, in addition to evoking death, for Indigenous peoples, bones offer communication with the animal spirits such as scapulimancy...