Canoe in Rapids
From Foreword
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Winslow Homer, Canoe in Rapids, 1897. Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper, 35.4 × 53.3 cm (13 15/16 × 21 in).
From Introduction
Canoeists paddling a Wenonah Kevlar canoe above a rapids in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
From Introduction
Photograph by H. H. Bennett, canoeists in a birch-bark canoe near Steamboat Rock, Wisconsin Dells.
From Introduction
Sigurd Olson’s Border Lakes Outfitting Company, April 4, 1940.
From Introduction
Francis Lee Jaques, Picture Rock at Crooked Lake (Return of the Voyageur), 1947. Oil on canvas, 83.8 x 106.6 cm.
From Introduction
Myron Nickerson, a former employee of J. Henry Rushton appears on the far right in this 1894 photograph.
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 Introduction
Mark Hamel, Crossing the Shallows, Snake River, 2014. Oil on mounted linen, 40.64 × 50.8 cm.
From Introduction
Two paddlers are photographed in 1952 at Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. Photograph by Gar Lunney, National Film Board of Canada Collection, Library and Archives of Canada, R1196-14-7-E.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Lee Moorhouse, Log canoe on the Columbia River, ca. 1900.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Woodcut illustration of a Taino dugout canoe, Girolamo Benzoni’s La Historia del Mondo Nuovo, 1562.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Florida dugout canoe and typical Timucua houses, 1591, engraving by Theodor de Bry after Jacques Le Moyne.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Contemporary dugout photographed at Playa de San Mateo del Mar near Oaxaca, Mexico.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Inscriptions on bone from the Late Classic Era Mayan burial site at Tikal (ca. 800–ca. 1000 CE), redrawn by Linda Schele, artist and Mesoamerican scholar.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Fresco featuring Putun dugout canoes, interior walls of the Temple of the Warriors, Chichen Itza.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Map of Caribbean.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Drawing by John White (~1585–1593), inscribed The manner of their fishing and A Cannow.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Kryn Frederycks woodcut titled T’ Fort Nieuw Amsterdam op de Manhatans, ca. 1626.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
The oyster industry of the East Coast relied on dugout canoes to navigate the rivers of Connecticut during the nineteenth century. This photograph dates to 1872 and depicts a dugout next to an oyster house near New Haven.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Archeologists examine a dugout canoe found during a drought in 2000 at Newnans Lake, Florida.