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Canada's Got Treasures! The Four Indian Kings

The portraits of the "Four Kings" are among the earliest surviving full-length oil portraits of North American First Nations people painted from life. Three hundred years after they were painted these portraits remain a valuable record of early cultural and political diplomacy between the First Nations and the British Empire.

Watch a video produced by students at Concordia University on the Canada's Got Treasures! Website:
http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/expositions-exhibitions/tresors-treasures/?page_id=2543&lang=en