Up where she belongs

Amid the works in Buffy Sainte-Marie: Pathfinder are the archeological relics the folk-music legend used to create them.

Under glass at Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Winnipeg is an Apple Macintosh computer, circa 1984, its motherboard and the 3.5-inch floppy disks that stored MacPaint files the 80-year-old artist made that became vivid prints that adorn Urban Shaman’s walls.

The ground-breaking computer, which was built with only 128 kilobytes of memory, is as much of an Information Age antiquity as the hammers, chisels, brushes and paint artists have used for millennia that are part of museum exhibitions around the world.

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