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Lost Identities - A Journey of Rediscovery was first a travelling exhibit of archival photographs. It premiered at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, June 2 to October 31, 1999.
Photographs can speak. They can whisper or shout. They can lie. Many photographs, though, are silent. When individuals, events or other details are not known, photographs do not have voices. The subjects of the photographs in the Lost Identities exhibit were unidentified, and voiceless. This exhibit travelled to the Aboriginal communities where the photographs were taken and asked the people to find the voices and the stories buried in the pictures. It was, and remains, a journey of rediscovery.
Lost Identities was a collaborative project of Alberta Community Development (Historic Sites Service, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and the Provincial Archives of Alberta) and Museums Alberta, with funding from the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage.
Lost Identities: A Journey of Rediscovery
Now on permanent exhibition at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
 Alberta Provincial Archives |
Identified through the Exhibits inquiry process as: AAKAMAHSTOOKII Kainai
English Translation: This man owned many mules on the Blood Reserve in the early 1900's. He was a warrior prior to the signing of Treaty 7. He became a well known farmer once the Bloods were settled in the Belly Butte area. |
