Winnipeg art exhibit: moccasin tops memorial for missing, murdered native women
WINNIPEG – Hundreds of missing and murdered aboriginal women are being remembered in a travelling art exhibit of beaded moccasin tops.
The exhibit entitled “Walking With Our Sisters” is in Winnipeg at the start of a seven-year tour of North America.
The installation is made up of just over 1,700 pairs of donated moccasin tops.
Some were made by children — scrawled with words such as “love” and “hope” — while others are intricately beaded pictures of a victim.
Metis artist Christi Belcourt came up with the idea to pay tribute to around 800 aboriginal women who have been reported missing or murdered in Canada over the last 20 years.
She says the tops are deliberately not sewn into moccasins to reflect the unfinished lives of so many women.
The exhibit is scheduled to make stops in Manitoba, Ontario and Saskatchewan this year before going to the United States and Ottawa.
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