Between 1928 and 1934, the French-American anthropologist, artist, and writer Paul Coze (1903-1974) 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. He also assembled a substantial private collection of ethnographic material from the Canadian Plains and Subarctic.
These photos from Provincial Archives of Alberta that he shot documenting everyday life of Native Americans in Western Canada in the early 1930s.
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| Cree girl playing with a child suspended in a small hammock, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Cree men, women and children participating in a ceremony, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Cree woman carrying domestic supplies, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Cree woman smoking beside racks of drying meat, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Cree women performing the round dance, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Cree women working on a large moose hide, Waterhen River area, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Cree women working on a large moose hide, Waterhen River area, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Dancers going to a pow-wow |
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| Dressing a horse for a ceremony, Nakoda summer camp near Banff, Alberta |
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| Kamaistit inside a sweat lodge, Waterhen River Cree, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Kousahpatsican smoking his pipe, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Kousahpatsican smoking his pipe, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Nakoda riders Rocky Mountains, Alberta |
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| Odjindja-Tchintchan, Nakoda medicine-man, near Banff, Alberta |
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| Paul Coze greeting Wanhinkpe, Nakoda chief, Near Banff, Alberta |
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| Pipe ceremony at Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Preparing for a ceremony, Southern Saskatchewan |
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| Repairing a crack in a birch bark canoe with hot resin, Waterhen River Cree, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Squatipew, Cree, Star Blanket Band, Fort Qu'Appelle, South Saskatchewan |
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| Unidentified Blackfoot woman with hide-scraping tools, Alberta |
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| Unidentified Blackfoot woman, Alberta |
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| Unidentified man and child, Nakoda summer camp near Banff, Alberta |
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| Unidentified Plains Cree at a powwow in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan |
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| Unidentified Plains Cree at a powwow in Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan |
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| Women arranging their tepees, Southern Saskatchewan |
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| Women cooking over an open fire, Nakoda summer camp near Banff, Alberta |
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| Women scraping a large hide, Nakoda summer camp near Banff, Alberta |
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| Young couple beside a lake, Waterhen River Area, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Young couple beside a lake, Waterhen River Area, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Young Cree woman between two elders, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Young Cree woman with birch bark container, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Young man inside a tepee holding pipe , Southern Saskatchewan |
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| Young men in ceremonial dresses, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Ashatcheway, a Cree medicine man, smoking an effigy pipe, Waterhen River Area, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Blue Bird and her sister, near Banff, Alberta |
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| Blue Bird, Nakoda girl, near Banff, Alberta |
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| Blue Bird, Nakoda girl, near Banff, Alberta |
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| Ceremonial offering, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
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| Ceremony being observed by visitors, Southern Saskatchewan |
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| Chief Two Bears beside his tepee, Southern Saskatchewan |
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| Cree and Métis men performing the pipe ceremony, Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan |
