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Activities: Iroquois
Champlain Skirmish A depiction of Samuel de Champlain's first encounter with the Iroquois (Mohawks) in 1609, a forest skirmish on future Lake Champlain, including fanciful rowboats, rather than canoes.
ID #10070
Iroquois Village Attack An unsuccessful attack by French and Huron allies on an Iroquois (Onondaga) village on Lake Ontario, 1615, including a fanciful castle-storming French siege-tower.
ID #10071
Iroquois Indians
ID #20658
Council Fire An Iroquois council fire within a longhouse, in a 19th century rendition, displaying the rough interior, central fire, and tree supports for the roof.
ID #10040

Activities: Labrador
Eskimo in Kayak A Labrador Eskimo in a sealskin kayak, c. 1821. Watercolour by Peter Rindisbacher (1806-1834).
ID #23259

Activities: New Brunswick & Malecite
Salmon Spearing Malecite Indians in New Brunswick spearing Atlantic salmon by torchlight on the Nashwaak River, c. 1837. Watercolour by Richard George Augustus Levinge (1811-1889).
ID #23254

Activities: Pacific Coast & Salish
Salmon Weir An Indian salmon weir and dugout canoe on the Cowichan River, 1866, a typical native food system along the Pacific coast.
ID #10047
Drying Meat Drying meat outside an Indian family's tent near the Stikine River, British Columbia, 1899.
ID #21899
Kotsuis and Hohhug A west coast winter dance, 1914, with two mythical birds represented by carved masks, Kotsuis and Hohhug.
ID #10091
Tree Burial Arriving for a tree burial by canoe, in British Columbia, a traditional Indian ceremony, c. 1920. Watercolour by Joanna Simpson Wilson.
ID #23253
Salish Indians Salish Indian women knitting the famed Cowichan sweaters, a native art with wide markets, on Vancouver Island.
ID #21062
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