Sacred World of Norval Morrisseau (Part II)

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- 1970's PERIOD
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"Sacred Medicine Bear", © 1979 Norval Morrisseau
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"How was it possible for this youth to reach back to the old feelings, to conceive the images that would bear the unmistakable stamp of his people? How could this firm pride originate in a community relegated to the status of third class citizens, constantly reminded of this status and defeated by it? What was there about this lad that earned for him in a medicine woman's dream the combined names of a powerful spirit and the metal traditionally sacred to the Lake Superior Ojibway- Copper Thunderbird?"
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Selwyn Dewdney
- Art aducator and noted expert on Ojibway art and anthropology. Edited Norval Morrisseau's book "Legends of My People, The Great Ojibway" / Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1965/
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* The painting in this posting: "Sacred Medicine Bear", 36"x30", © 1979 Norval Morrisseau /Ugo Matulić a.k.a. Spirit Walker's Private Collection/