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Our Grandmothers’ Hands: Repatriating Métis Material Art
- Author Name: Gregory Scofield
- Publisher: Gabriel Dumont Institute Press
- Publication Date: 2023
- ISBN: 9781988011226
About the Book
Our Grandmothers’ Hands is a visually stunning museum-style art book. Guided by the desire to repatriate lost “grandmothers” back to the Métis Nation, award-winning Métis poet Gregory Scofield has lovingly spent the past several years acquiring a one-of-kind collection of Métis beadwork, embroidery, and other aspects of decorative material culture.
About the Author
Gregory Scofield is an award-winning Métis poet who has published eight volumes of poetry and is presently an Associate Professor in the University of Victoria’s Department of Writing. A skilled bead-worker, he has assembled a large collection of Métis artifacts, which is the basis of his book, Our Grandmothers’ Hands.