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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR1905 | | TITLE: | Paul Coze Fonds | | CREATOR: | Coze, Paul | | DATE RANGE: | 1928-1931 | | EXTENT: | 50 negatives | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Between 1928 and 1934, the French artist Paul Coze made four trips across western Canada collecting ethnographic objects for the Musée d'Ethnographie (Trocadero) in Paris and the Heye Foundation in New York. An ardent admirer of Native American cultures, Coze helped organize the Cercle Wakanda, a group of Parisian "Indian hobbyists" who staged theatrical productions on Aboriginal themes. Coze also assembled a substantial private collection of ethnographic material from the Canadian Plains and Subarctic. One hundred and twenty two items from his personal collection, ranging from garments and horse gear to model canoes and games, now form part of the Ethnology collections at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton. They are accompanied by 58 photographs and 119 paintings, many of them portraits of individuals whom Coze met during his travels, as well as props used in Cercle Wakanda productions. Together with Coze's writings, published (Moeurs et Histoire des Indiens Peaux-Rouges and Wakanda, among others) and unpublished, this assemblage of diverse objects offers a unique perspective on Aboriginal life of the early 20th century as well as European attitudes towards Aboriginal peoples and cultures. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | The negatives were received by the Provincial Museum of Alberta [ now the Royal Alberta Museum] in 1994 from John P. Flaherty as part of a broader Paul Coze collection including 80 original paintings, 50 original black and white photographs and negatives, 48 plains artifacts and 19 sub-arctic artifacts from Alberta. The Provincial Museum of Alberta transferred the photographs to the Provincial Archives of Alberta in March of 2003. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of fifty black and white nitrate negatives taken by Paul Coze during his visits to Western Canada during 1928, 1930 and 1931. The photographs were a part of his ethnographic interests as an artist and document Métis, Cree and Stoney Plain Indians in Alberta and Saskatchewan. About a quarter of the negatives document Alberta, while the majority was taken in Saskatchewan. | | ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: | The Royal Alberta Museum holds the Paul Coze collection consisting of artifacts, paintings and photographs. The photographs held by the Royal Alberta Museum numbered H.94.50/148b – 197b correspond to the negatives that make up the Paul Coze Fonds held by the Provincial Archives of Alberta. Two paintings held by the Royal Alberta Museum also correspond to
photos/negatives: Paul Coze portrait No. 17 (see photo H.94.50/169b) and Paul Coze portrait No. 19 (see photo H.94.50/168b).
| | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch is taken from the Royal Alberta Museum website: http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/human/ethno/collects/collects.htm (Accessed July 6, 2006).
| | RELATED FONDS: | SL1905 (Fonds Paul Coze)
| | RELATED ITEMS: | PR2006.0508.0001 (Photo of 'Squatipew', Cree Indian, Star Blanket Band, Fort Qu'Appelle, South Saskatchewan -Smoking Inside His Tipi.)
PR2006.0508.0002 (Photo of Plains Cree Indians Going to a Pow-Wow in the Area of Lake Qu'Appelle, South Saskatchewan)
PR2006.0508.0003 (Photo of Plains Cree Indians Attending a Pow-Wow in Fort Qu'Appelle, South Saskatchewan)
PR2006.0508.0004 (Photo of Stoney Indian [Nakoda] Riders - Taken in the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0005 (Photo of 'Paul Coze' Greeting 'Wanhinkpe' a Stoney [Nakoda] Chief -Photographed in Summer Camp Used by the Stoney near Banff, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0006 (Photo of Blue Bird and Her Sister, Stoney [Nakoda] Indians -Taken in Summer Camp Near Banff, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0007 (Photo of Blue Bird, Stoney [Nakoda] Indian - Taken Near Banff, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0008 (Photo of Blue Bird, Stoney [Nakoda] Girl -Taken Near Banff, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0009 (Photo of 'Odjindja-Tchintchan', Stoney [Nakoda] Medicine Man -Taken Near Banff, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0010 (Photo taken in Stoney [Nakoda] Summer Camp Near Banff, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0011 (Photo taken in Stoney [Nakoda] Summer Camp Near Banff, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0012 (Dressing a Horse for a Ceremony - Taken in Stoney [Nakoda] Summer Camp Near Banff, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0013 (Woman Scraping a Large Hide - Taken in Stoney [Nakoda] Summer Camp Near Banff, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0014 (Women Cooking Over an Open Fire -Stoney [Nakoda] Summer Camp Near Banff, Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0015 (Blackfoot Woman With Hide Scraping Tools - Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0016 (Blackfoot Indian Woman - Alberta)
PR2006.0508.0017 (Photo of a Sweat-Lodge Structure - Taken in the Area of Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan)
PR2006.0508.0018 (Cree-Métis Working on a Large Moose Hide - Waterhen River area, Northern Saskatchewan)
PR2006.0508.0019 (Cree-Métis Working on a Large Moose Hide - Waterhen River area, Northern Saskatchewan)
PR2006.0508.0020 (Cree-Métis Scraping a Large Moose Hide - Waterhen River area, Northern Saskatchewan)
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