A great cliff in Alberta, Canada, featuring a 1500 year-old petroglyphic record.
Creator: Blackfoot People of the Great Plains
Date of Creation: 500 CE – 2020 CE
Place of origin: Alberta, Canada
Physical measurements: 4.35 miles long and 115 feet high.
Materials: Sandstone
Process by which it was made: Carving and pecking
Current location: Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta
Further Reading
Writing-on-Stone and its “Rock Art”
James D. Keyser and Michael A. Klassen. Plains Indian Rock Art. Seattle: University of Washington Press, and Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2001
War Robes
Arni Brownstone. War Paint: Blackfoot and Sarcee Painted Buffalo Robes in the Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1993.
Garments, Objects, Womens’ Artifacts, Contemporary Indigenous Work
Gaylord Torrence. The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky. Skira Rizzoli and Musée du Quai Branly, 2014.
Winter Counts
Candace Greene and Russell Thornton, eds. The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian. Smithsonian Museums and University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Ledger Books
Castle McLaughlin, A Lakota War Book from the Little Bighorn: The Pictographic “Autobiography of Half Moon.” Cambridge, Mass: Houghton Library and Peabody Museum, 2013.
Information contributed by Germaine Warkentin.