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| Eskimos hunters at head of Baker Lake, Northwest Territories. |
| Date: |
1893 |
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309 x 400 (31.1 K) |
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| Eskimos in boat, Hudson Bay, N.W.T. |
| Date: |
1897 |
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500 x 307 (39.5 K) |
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| The natives have another boat called the umiak or
woman's boat. This is also made with a wooden frame covered with skins,
but it is much larger than the hunting kayak of the men. In shape it roughly
resembles a large square-ended punt, being often twenty feet and over in
length, by six feet or more across the middle section, tapering towards
the ends to about half that width. It is made quite deep, and is capable
of carrying a very heavy load. Usually two or more families use a single
umiak to transport their goods from place to place, and as the poles
and Big sealskin covering of each tent weigh upwards of half a ton, the
capacity of these boats can be realized.
- A.P. Low,
The Cruise of the Neptune, 1903-1904 |
| A photograph of two little native girls. |
| Date: |
1912 |
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500 x 360 (29.8 K) |
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| (Untitled) |
| Date: |
1932 |
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500 x 360 (23.7 K) |
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| There once was a boy who used to set his snares for his living.
One day he saw a track where the snow was melted, and after a while he decided
to set his snares there and catch the animal that made the tracks. So he
set his snares and went away. That track was the sun's track, and when the
sun came by the next day it got caught. The sun didn't rise the next day
and there was steady darkness. The people began to be puzzled. "Where
did you set your snare?" they asked him. He told them and they went
to look. There they saw the sun caught, but no one could go near enough
to loosen it. A number of animals tried to do this, but they all got burned.
At last the Beaver-mouse managed to cut it with his teeth and freed it.
But his teeth got burned with the heat, and so they are brown to this day,
but the sun is here and we have the daylight.
- Related by Aleck Paul, second chief of Timagami band, to F.G. Speck
- Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa
- GSC Memoir 71 |
| Indian grave (Ojibway), Round Lake, Moss Township. |
| Date: |
1891 |
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500 x 323 (39.2 K) |
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| Micmac Indians, Oldham, Nova Scotia. |
| Date: |
1913 |
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500 x 336 (38.4 K) |
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| The Ojibwa attributed nearly all pictographs to the Iroquois.
On Lady Evelyn Lake are a number of such figures, showing animals and men
in canoes.
- F.G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami
Ojibwa
- GSC Memoir 71, No. 9, Anthropological Series, 1915 |
| Caughnawaga Indians, Quebec. |
| Date: |
1913 |
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500 x 340 (36.7 K) |
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| Eagle Totem Pole, East end Maud Isle, British Columbia. |
| Date: |
1913 |
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271 x 400 (28.7 K) |
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| "The Iroquois used to come here to fight the Ojibwa
because the Americans had driven them from their homes in the States and
the Iroquois had to seek new countries beyond the settlements in the North.
In their excursions, when they got far from home, they cut and painted pictures
in the rocks on river and lake shores, so that their friends, if they ever
penetrated so far, would know that their own people had been there before
them. The characters of these pictures would tell what had happened, so
that if the advance party never returned to their people, some record would
at least be left behind of their journey."
- Chief Aleck Paul, 1913 |
| Gotcheo L., A Celebrated resort of the Indians, a building
of theirs existing here known as the Culla-Culla House, or Bird House, a
large Crow Carved in wood, rather neatly,&painted black, adorning one
gable. The Indians tell me that the [abode?] made by Bella Coola Indians,
the natives here not understanding painting and decoration so well. A curious
instance of mingling of customs of two now friendly tribes.
- George M. Dawson,
The Journals of George M. Dawson: British Columbia,
1875-1878, Vol. 1, 1876 |
| Indian tent, Fond du Lac, Lake Athabaska, Alberta. |
| Date: |
1914 |
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500 x 333 (26.0 K)) |
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| Chipewyan Indians, Fond du Lac, Lake Athabaska, Alberta. |
| Date: |
1914 |
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500 x 344 (37.0 K) |
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| Four Cree drummers at a tea dance, Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. |
| Date: |
1914 |
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500 x 399 (34.3 K) |
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| Pierre Pierrot (Chipewyan) with two large coneys at our camp, Taltson River at mouth of Pierrot Creek, Northern Alberta. |
| Date: |
1914 |
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295 x 400 (25.7 K) |
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| Indian girl (Cree and Chipewyan) at our camp at mouth of Taltson River, with birchbark basket Northwest Territories or northern Alberta. |
| Date: |
1914 |
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480 x 400 (38.0 K) |
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| Group of Chipewyans at our camp, Taltson River at mouth of Pierrot Creek,
Northwest Territories or northern Alberta. |
| Date: |
1914 |
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500 x 349 (40.0 K)) |
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| Indian boy in front of teepee at Pointe-de-Grovois, Slave River, Northwest
Territories. |
| Date: |
1914 |
| Image: |
500 x 329 (30 K) |
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| Half-breed boy with two Hoyt's horned larks and a stick for striking
down birds on the ground Fort McMurray, Alberta. |
| Date: |
1914 |
| Image: |
500 x 392 (27 K) |
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| Alexander LaVivette, a chief of the Chipewyans (3/4 Chipewyan and 1/4
French) playing checkers, he is the most distant one in the group of four,
Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. |
| Date: |
1914 |
| Image: |
500 x 326 (32 K) |
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| James Daniell, a Saulteaux half-breed, with fish just brought from his
nets; also his wife and his dogs. His catch included a Goldeye (right hand)
a Pike, Whitefish (left hand), Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. |
| Date: |
1914 |
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500 x 347 (31 K) |
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| Once a hunter was so quick of foot that when he shot his
arrow at a beaver plunging into the lake from the shore, he would run down,
catch the beaver by the tail before the arrow got to it, and hold it until
the arrow struck. He was a fast runner indeed.
- Related by Aleck Paul, second chief of Timagami band, to F.G. Speck
- Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa
- GSC Memoir 71, No. 9, Anthropological series, 1915 |
| Indian teepee, girl and boy, Banff, Alberta. |
| Date: |
1915 |
| Image: |
500 x 344 (41 K) |
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| Stoney Indians, Banff, Alberta. |
| Date: |
1915 |
| Image: |
500 x 320 (32 K) |
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