Algonquin Storyboards

Kitigan Zibi
Algonquin
Anishinabeg artist Doreen Stevens’ ceramic mural
is up on the New Edinburgh Fieldhouse.
Charlotte Stevens’ paint mural is in progress below!
Left to right on the ceramic panels:
White Birch,
White pine ,
water panther/mishipeshu,
Sun, canoe with paddlers,
partridge/Chief Pinesi with female strawberries on chest,
wampum below,
whirling maple whirligig helicopters,
stick people,
migis shells in 4 directions,
sunset on clouds,
Moon ,
frog surrounded by grandfather stones,
winter maple tree,
golden maple leaves
. Map of QR coded Trails. New Edinburgh Park, 203 Stanley Avenue, Ottawa, Canada
~Peter Stockdale

 

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Kitigan Zibi, Algonquin Park, Ontario
Anishinabeg Artist: Doreen Stevens’
Ceramic mural
~located at
The New Edinburgh Fieldhouse

Reading panels from:
Left to Right

The White Birch
The White Pine
The Water Panther/mishipeshu
The Sun
The Canoe with Paddlers
The Partridge
Chief Pinesi with female strawberries on chest
The Wampum Belt, is below
The Whirling maple seeds / whirligig helicopters
The Stick People
Megis / Migis Shells in The 4 directions
Sunset on the Clouds
The Moon
The Frog surrounded by
The Grandfather Stones (used in sweat lodges)
The Winter Maple tree
The Golden Maple leaves

Map of QR coded Trails
New Edinburgh (Edenburgh) Park
203 Stanley Street
Ottawa, Ontario

 

THE GREAT LYNX
aka The Underwater Panther
Mishibijiw aka Mishipeshu
~Anishinaabe / Ojibwe
The indigenous / first nations people of canada
of the Great Lakes Region aka Northwestern Woodlands
Giant Cat, with the heat and paws of a lynx
covered in scales and has dagger-like spikes running along its back and tail.

Mishipeshu calls Michipicoten Island in Lake Superior his home
and is a powerful creature in the mythological traditions of some Indigenous North American tribes,
particularly Anishinaabe, the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi, of the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States.

In addition to the Anishinaabeg, Innu also have Mishibizhiw stories.

To the Algonquins, the underwater panther was the most powerful underworld being.

The Ojibwe traditionally held them to be masters of all water creatures, including snakes.

Some versions of the Nanabozho creation legend refers to whole communities of water lynx.

Some archaeologists believe that underwater panthers were major components of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
of the Mississippian culture in the prehistoric American Southeast.

Underwater panther - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_panther