Chief Poking Fire | Indian Village & Museum | Caughnawaga, Kahnawake
Chief Poking Fire Caughnawaga (KA_NA_WA_KE) Indian Reserve, Canada.
from: Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
“Beadwork sells much better in a set-up like Poking Fire than through shops where it will just sit on a shelf,” Leo Diabo remarked …..The Poking Fire “set-up” to which he referred was a tourist attraction developed by John McComber, aslo known as Chief Poking Fire, in the village of Kahnawake in the 1930s. Originally known as “Chief Poking Fire Totum [sic] Pole Indian Village, McComber’s enterprise provided visitors with a highly staged representation of Indians as exotic Others … “
ed. Ruth B. Phillips, Christopher B. Steiner
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I LOVE this picture and the story which goes with it. Wonderful.
I wanted to thank you for your kind words, thoughts and prayers when our darling Crickette’ died.
Please do come by for a little surprise I made, in celebration of her life–especially for those who have been so loving and supportive.
Blessings to you, dear one.