Map of Maine’s Moosehead Lake
From Introduction
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From Introduction
Map of Maine’s Moosehead Lake and the headwaters of the Aroostook and Penobscot Rivers, drawn in 1880 by W. R. Curtis.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Map of Caribbean.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Woman In Canoe. Photograph from collection of Cruces y Campa Mexican Occupationals “cartes-de-visites” series, 1862–1877.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Photograph of the Hicks family of the Clallam tribe posing with a canoe near Chimacum Creek, Washington, ca. 1914.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Natives making canoe from tree trunk at Mission ca. 1900. Photograph by Alexander McLean.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
The range of the paper birch (Betula papyrifera) in North America. The tree is sometimes called canoe birch.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Joseph John Kirkbride, Picnic along Shore of Lake, near Mouth of Socateau, ca. 1884, photograph.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Photograph of an expedition to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Lake Superior, ca. 1868. Photographer unknown.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Carl Gustave Linde, Mending His Canoe, ca. 1912.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Frederic Remington, Evening on a Canadian Lake, ca 1908. Library of Congress.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Tappan Adney, Calling Moose with the “Moose Horn,” ca. 1896
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Artist Unknown, Indians Making Birch Bark Canoes, ca. 1871.
From Sidebar: Elm-Bark Canoes
The Baron of Lahontan (Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce) drew this description of the Iroquois' elm-bark canoes for a three-volume memoir of his time in New France, which ended in 1693.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
French explorers witnessed the pearl diving industry in the Caribbean, where the newcomers got a glimpse of the native dugouts used in the activity.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
John Bowles, Thomas Bowles and Herman Moll, A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King, 1731.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
The process of making hats from the pelts of beavers is partially illustrated in this 1858 artwork from Charles Knight, produced by the London Printing and Publishing Company.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
The voyageurs plied the North American frontier for generations, often leaving from Montreal or York Factory or Lake Winnipeg on their long-distance trading journeys and not returning for many months, or sometimes years.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
H. A. Ogden, “At the Portage” from George Monro Grant, ed., Picturesque Canada (New York: Belden Brothers, 1882). Hudson’s Bay Company employees are shown in this engraving from the late nineteenth century. The sheer size of the 90-pound packs, boxes, and barrels to be transported in the canoes can be appreciated.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Music played an important role in the daily life of the voyageurs, from songs to help keep time while paddling to entertaining each other at the end of a long workday.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Hudson’s Bay Company: Historic Trading Posts and Territories of the Governor & Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson’s Bay. Stanley Turner, Made in Canada. 1969