Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID # |
1987.009.004 |
Object Name |
Plate, Decorative |
Other Name |
Souvenir, Grey County |
Title |
Souvenir County of Grey-Owen Sound Museum Platter |
Lexicon category |
4: T&E For Materials |
Year Range from |
1967 |
Year Range to |
1973 |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Collingwood, Simcoe County |
Description |
One bone coloured oblong china platter with gold rim and decal fired to plate centre which shows a round central scene of the Indian encampment at Newash as illustrated by John Landen, a former Museum Curator. The back reads "DECORATED IN CANADA- 22 K GOLD". |
Makers mark |
"DECORATED IN CANADA- 22 K GOLD". |
Provenance |
In the 1980s, the County of Grey-Owen Sound Museum had an inventory of souvenir plates like this one in its gift shop at 975 6th St. East, Owen Sound, Grey County. The plates were likely made for the museum at Collingwood, Simcoe County. This museum opened in 1967, and closed in 2003, with its collection moving to the Grey Roots Museum & Archives site. The artist, John J. Landen (d. 1996), had lived in Brooke since the early 1940s with his family and was the museum's first curator. He was very interested in First Nations history and was a talented local artist. "Newash" was a small settlement in what is now the Brooke area of Owen Sound. There was a Chief James Newash (now spelt as Nawash) who assisted incoming settlers and the surveyor Charles Rankin. The "Newash Band" of Ojibwa were located there in the 1850s when the Newash Mission and Newash Reserve were in existence. In 1857, the Newash people were relocated to Cape Croker when a treaty opened up the Newash Reserve for non-native settlement. |
Collection |
Food Service Tools & Equipment |
Material |
Ceramic/Transfer Prints/Glaze |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Landen, John J. |
Subjects |
Artists First Nations of Central Canada Canoes Wigwams |
Search Terms |
Newash Ojibway Newash Reserve County of Grey-Owen Sound Museum |