page_title: Indigenous Art Park
section_title: mamohkamatowin (Helping Each Other) - Jerry Whitehead
hierarchical_section_title: Indigenous Art Park / Featured artists / mamohkamatowin (Helping Each Other) - Jerry Whitehead
caption_attribution_description: English: Reign by Mary Anne Barkhouse at the Indigenous Art Park ᐄᓃᐤ (ÎNÎW) River Lot 11∞
context_page_description: Indigenous Art Park ᐄᓃᐤ River Lot 11∞ is a public park in the Edmonton, Alberta river valley built on the previous site of the Queen Elizabeth Pool. In June 2019, the Americans for the Arts' Public Art Network recognized the park as one of the 50 best international public art projects. Plans to build the park and curate installation pieces by Indigenous artists began in 2013, and the park opened in September 2018.
context_section_description: Jerry Whitehead is a Cree artist from James Smith Cree Nation whose artistic practise has included beadwork, murals and paintings. Whitehead's installation features two large, concrete turtles with painted mosaics on their backs depicting ancient stories, representing the Cree creation story of Turtle Island. 
  The turtles are titled "mother" and "baby" and each mosaic depicts four stories in a quadrant layout. The mother turtle faces west and features detailed, colourful mosaics depicting the sweat lodge, an eagle, the Northern Lights, teepees, dancers, a woodpecker to symbolize the Papaschase people, a thunderbird, and a beaver. 
  To complete the baby turtle, Linklater worked with students and elders at amiskwaciy Academy in Edmonton.  The baby turtle faces north and its mosaic quadrants represent: the Métis people, an eagle, a buffalo, and feathers. Linklater chose the name mamohkamatowin for his installation because, "The whole project worked because people were helping each other continuously, throughout the process from the beginning."
caption: Reign by Mary Anne Barkhouse
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