Wolf Collar was a member of the Siksika Nation. He may have met Henderson during his 1923 trip to the West. Wolf Collar was famous for the power that thunder and lightening bestowed on him. They say that Wolf Collar was to be able to predict the weather. This was one of the many powers he was given the day he was struck by lightening. He was seventeen years old at the time.
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James Henderson
Silas Wolf Collar, c. 1923
oil on canvas
35.8 x 30.7 cm
Collection of the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.
Photographer Unknown
Wolf Collar, Blackfoot and Reverend F. M. Ross Gibney, on Blackfoot reserve, Gleichen, Alberta., 1926
Archival Photograph
Courtesy of the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.
Photographer Unknown
Wolf Collar, Blackfoot ceremonialist., ca. 1920s
Archival Photograph
Courtesy of the Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB.
