‘Peeling Back the Moss:’ Peterborough’s forgotten downtown Indigenous mural – mykawartha.com

Hunter Street mural was covered up after five years for safety reasons

‘Peeling Back the Moss,’ a giant mural to signify Indigenous culture, story, community and images, shared with anyone who saw it the art that depicts the way of life of the Anishinaabe people who shaped and helped build the City of Peterborough.

Artists Yvonne Garbutt and David Johnson, both of Curve Lake First Nation, were commissioned by Kawartha World Issues Centre (KWIC) in the early 90s to paint a visionary representation of the petroglyphs.  Both artists had strong ideas of culture and way of life of the Anishinaabe.

Garbutt and Johnson took a year to plan out what the mural would look like. Their canvas,  a three-storey exterior plaster wall of at 163 Hunter St. W.   They outlined and painted a  turtle with the moss being peeled back. Paintings of the rocks of the petroglyphs, images of influential women from Curve Lake First Nation,  stories of Indigenous community as well as symbols of the Anishnaabe who lived years before were also featured.

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