• Artist Unknown, Indians Making Birch Bark Canoes, ca. 1871.

Indians Making Birch Bark Canoes

From Canoes: A Natural History in North America by Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims

  • Indians Making Birch Bark Canoes is a wood-cut engraving published in Harper’s Weekly in 1871. The illustration depicts Native Americans constructing canoes with birch bark on the shore of a lake.
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  • History
  • Cultural Studies
  • Literature
  • Native American Studies
  • Regional Studies
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  • 1871
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