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Canoe Sail Toggle - GRPO 13997 - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Canoe Sail Toggle - GRPO 13997 - Public Domain image, National Parks G...

The use of sails in birch bark canoes is depicted in Frances Anne Hopkins' 1869 painting entitled "Voyageurs on Lake Superior" and is mentioned in the journals of fur traders. They were often rigged with line... More

Indians making birch-bark canoes

Indians making birch-bark canoes

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1871 Aug. 5, p. 725.

Birch Bark Canoes in the Historic Encampment

Birch Bark Canoes in the Historic Encampment

Birch bark canoe making, invented by North American Indians, made the Great lakes fur trade successful.

Birch Bark Canoes, Tents and Grand Portage Island

Birch Bark Canoes, Tents and Grand Portage Island

These are north canoes, about 24 feet long, used down the North Shore of Lake Superior and northwest into western Canada.

Birch Bark Canoes - National Parks Gallery

Birch Bark Canoes - National Parks Gallery

These birch bark canoes await immerson in Lake Superior

Stored Birch Bark Canoes - A group of canoes sitting on top of a lush green field

Stored Birch Bark Canoes - A group of canoes sitting on top of a lush ...

Four birch bark canoes stored upside down in the monument's historic encampment.

Voyageur Encampment, Free images of New Mexico

Voyageur Encampment, Free images of New Mexico

Voyageurs from the northwest named winterers slept in canvas tents issued by the NWCo while at Grand Portage. The birch bark canoes they traveled in are stored at Fort Charlotte nearly nine miles from Lake Superior.

Birch Bark Canoe - National Parks Gallery

Birch Bark Canoe - National Parks Gallery

In ideal conditions, birch bark canoes could be sailed on Lake Superior to conserve energy.

Birch Bark Canoes - National Parks Gallery

Birch Bark Canoes - National Parks Gallery

Four upturned canoes stored in the historic encampment

Descent of Fraser River 1808 - Public domain  drawing

Descent of Fraser River 1808 - Public domain drawing

Colour drawing by C.W. Jefferys, titled "The Descent of the Fraser River, 1808". From Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters, by Agnes C. Laut, published in 1915. Original capt... More

(Indians in canoe hunting moose)

(Indians in canoe hunting moose)

Public domain image of painting, 16th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Chipewyan-in-a-canoe - A group of people in a canoe on a lake

Chipewyan-in-a-canoe - A group of people in a canoe on a lake

A Chipewyan woman and child set out to hunt muskrat along the shallow margins of Garson Lake in western Saskatchewan.

First Nations encampment beside the Albany River in the Northwest Territories, 1886

First Nations encampment beside the Albany River in the Northwest Terr...

en:First Nations encampment beside the en:Albany River in the en:Northwest Territories, en:1886. Photo by Robert Bell, en:Geological Survey of Canada. Online version from en:Library and Archives Canada, Access... More

First Nations people on the Nelson River

First Nations people on the Nelson River

First Nations people on the Nelson River of Manitoba, one mile above Clearwater River and en route to their hunting grounds, 1878. Français : Membres des Premières Nations sur la Nelson au Manitoba, un mille en... More

Mending his canoe (HS85-10-26189) original

Mending his canoe (HS85-10-26189) original

Mending his canoe. A black and white photo of a man laying on a boat. A man is cleaning a canoe in a field. Public domain postcard scan.

Mending his canoe (HS85-10-26189)

Mending his canoe (HS85-10-26189)

Mending his canoe. A man is jumping over a raft in the water. A man jumping into a puddle of water. Public domain postcard scan.

In the Valley. Penllergare. (4011828546)

In the Valley. Penllergare. (4011828546)

Ffotograffydd/Photographer: John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810-1882) Nodyn/Note: Also titled ‘The Birch Bark Canoe – a Canadian scene at Penllergare. WMDL mending net’ and ‘The Wigwam’. Exhibited (No 518) at the Photo... More

Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior

Canoes in a Fog, Lake Superior

Public domain photograph of 19th-century French painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ojibwe birch bark exhibit (4974855420)

Ojibwe birch bark exhibit (4974855420)

Ojibwe birch bark exhibit. Photo by Tina Shaw/USFWS

Detroit Photographic Company (1057) view, photochrome print postcard.

Detroit Photographic Company (1057) view, photochrome print postcard.

A photochrom postcard published by the Detroit Photographic Company.

Canoe - Pearson Scott Foresman Archives

Canoe - Pearson Scott Foresman Archives

A man in a canoe. Public domain image of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall

Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall

Scene showing a large Hudson's Bay Company freight canoe passing a waterfall, presumably on the French River. The passengers in the canoe may be the artist and her husband, Edward Hopkins, secretary to the Gove... More

FAH Voyageurs - A painting of a group of people near a body of water

FAH Voyageurs - A painting of a group of people near a body of water

Voyageurs at Dawn Public domain photograph of 19th-century French painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

FAHopkins Shooting Rapids

FAHopkins Shooting Rapids

Shooting the Rapids (Quebec) Public domain photograph of 19th-century French painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

First Nations Basket Makers c.1870

First Nations Basket Makers c.1870

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of camp, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Shooting the Rapids - A painting of a group of people in a boat

Shooting the Rapids - A painting of a group of people in a boat

Shooting the Rapids (Quebec) Public domain photograph of 19th-century French painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Voyageur canoe, Ontario, Canada

Voyageur canoe, Ontario, Canada

Scene showing a large Hudson's Bay Company freight canoe passing a waterfall, presumably on the French River. The passengers in the canoe may be the artist and her husband, Edward Hopkins, secretary to the Gove... More

Indian Wigwam in Lower Canada (1848 ) Cornelius Krieghoff

Indian Wigwam in Lower Canada (1848 ) Cornelius Krieghoff

Indian Wigwam in Lower Canada. Public domain photograph of 19th-century American painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Canoes - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC00284

Canoes - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC00284

Exhibit in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photography was permitted in the museum. I took this photograph and release it into the public domain.

Glenbowmuseecanoe

Glenbowmuseecanoe

An aboriginal canoe at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. My own work.

Canoe and crafts - Glenbow Museum - DSC00920

Canoe and crafts - Glenbow Museum - DSC00920

Exhibit in the Glenbow Museum, 130 9th Ave S.E., Calgary, Alberta, Canada. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction.

P. D. Beckwith, Inc. (3093714932)

P. D. Beckwith, Inc. (3093714932)

2567 Subject (TGM): Indians of North America; Indigenous peoples; Canoes; Fish; Moon; Bodies of water; Appliances; Furnaces; Stoves; Stove industry; Awards; Keywords: Round Oak Furnace A.Y.P. Exposition Seattle

HURLED THE PINE-CONES DOWN UPON HIM - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Illustrator M. L. Kirk - 1910

HURLED THE PINE-CONES DOWN UPON HIM - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adap...

HURLED THE PINE-CONES DOWN UPON HIM - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Illustrator M. L. Kirk - 1910

TAKE MY BAIT, O KING OF FISHES - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Illustrator M. L. Kirk - 1910

TAKE MY BAIT, O KING OF FISHES - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted f...

TAKE MY BAIT, O KING OF FISHES - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Illustrator M. L. Kirk - 1910

WESTWARD, WESTWARD, HIAWATHA - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Illustrator M. L. Kirk - 1910

WESTWARD, WESTWARD, HIAWATHA - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted fro...

WESTWARD, WESTWARD, HIAWATHA - from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Winston Stokes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Illustrator M. L. Kirk - 1910

Beothuk camp - A drawing of a man standing in front of a teepee

Beothuk camp - A drawing of a man standing in front of a teepee

Imaginary picture of a beothuk camp, drawn by Major John Cartwright. Français : Figuration imginaire d'un camp béothuk, dessiné par le Major John Cartwright.

FMIB 33093 Indian in Birch Canoe, Fisheries Exhibition

FMIB 33093 Indian in Birch Canoe, Fisheries Exhibition

Indian in Birch Canoe, Fisheries Exhibition Subject: Canoes and canoeing, Indians of North America--Fishing Tag: Expositions, Traditional Fisheries

FMIB 44022 Number of A-yan, or I-yan, Indians in their birchbark canoes The view was taken at old Fort Selkirk

FMIB 44022 Number of A-yan, or I-yan, Indians in their birchbark canoe...

Number of A-yan, or I-yan, Indians in their birchbark canoes. The view was taken at old Fort Selkirk Subject: Canoes and canoeing, Indians of North America--Alaska, Fort Selkird (Alaska) Geographic Subject: Un... More

Kane Lake Huron Oil - A painting of a group of people in front of tents

Kane Lake Huron Oil - A painting of a group of people in front of tent...

Public domain reproduction of artwork, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

PaulKane-HuntingFish-ROM, Ontario, Canada

PaulKane-HuntingFish-ROM, Ontario, Canada

Menominees spearfishing at night by torchlight and canoe on Fox River.

Shooting the Rapids 1879 - Public domain  painting

Shooting the Rapids 1879 - Public domain painting

Français : qu'on peut traduire par Descente de rapide. Rabaska descendant un rapide. Ce tableau dépeint un rabaska et son équipage dans une descente de rapide. On distingue environ dix-sept hommes et une femme... More

1843 drawing of Mission Point beach at Mackinac Island, Michigan

1843 drawing of Mission Point beach at Mackinac Island, Michigan

This drawing of Mission Point, Mackinac Island was created in 1843. It was published by Edwin O. Wood. 1918. Historic Mackinac, Volume 1 (of 2), facing-page 367. The Macmillan Company: New York. Drawing t... More

Canoe, Penobscot, purchased in 1912 in Old Town, Maine, mapple, birch bark - Native American collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC05800

Canoe, Penobscot, purchased in 1912 in Old Town, Maine, mapple, birch ...

Exhibit from the Native American Collection, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Photography was permitted without restriction; exhibit is old enough so that it is in the public domain.

Indians Poling up the Rapids of the St. Lawrence, ca. 1839

Indians Poling up the Rapids of the St. Lawrence, ca. 1839

Indians Poling up the Rapids of the St. Lawrence, ca. 1839, watercolour with scraping out over pencil on wove paper, 35.700 x 24.500 cm Français : Amérindiens remontant les rapides du fleuve Saint-Laurent, v.... More

Le portage de Joachim, camp de bucherons, pres de la riviere des Outaouais

Le portage de Joachim, camp de bucherons, pres de la riviere des Outao...

Joachim's Portage, Lumberer's Shanty on the Ottawa River, watercolour over pencil on wove paper, 24.300 x 16.100 cmFrançais : Le portage de Joachim, camp de bûcherons, près de la rivière des Outaouais, aquar... More

Manoomin picking, 1905, Minnesota

Manoomin picking, 1905, Minnesota

Anishinaabeg harvesting wild rice on Minnesotan lake around 1905 Public domain photograph of people with a small paddle boat, or canoe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Oj IBWE BIRCH BARK CANOE 1910 mINNESOTA

Oj IBWE BIRCH BARK CANOE 1910 mINNESOTA

Ojibwe birchbark canoe Public domain photograph of people with a small paddle boat, or canoe, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

No53p253 micmacs-e02-tribus indigene du labrador

No53p253 micmacs-e02-tribus indigene du labrador

Les Mic-Macs (tribus indigène du Labrador): Illustration published as part of the article Tribu des Mic-Macs, Mac Vernoll, in Le Monde illustré, n°53, 17/04/1858. See full text Tribu des Mic-Macs. This drawing... More

Voyageur's Camp - A group of people sitting around a campfire

Voyageur's Camp - A group of people sitting around a campfire

Voyageur's Camp Public domain photograph of indigenous native people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ojibwecampjpgsmall - A black and white photo of two canoes in a field
Ojibwaylanding 450 - A black and white photo of a group of people in canoes

Ojibwaylanding 450 - A black and white photo of a group of people in c...

Landing van Ojibwe-kano's aan de rand van een meer | Minnesota Historical Center

Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1897) (14597813840)

Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of ...

Identifier: annualreportofbu219smit (find matches) Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Year: 1895 (1890s) Authors: Smithsonian Institution... More

Travels amongst American Indians - their ancient earthworks and temples - including a journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a visit to the ruins of Patinamit, Utatlan, Palenque and Uxmal (14596770920)

Travels amongst American Indians - their ancient earthworks and temple...

Identifier: travelsamongstam00brin (find matches) Title: Travels amongst American Indians : their ancient earthworks and temples : including a journey in Guatemala, Mexico and Yucatan, and a visit to the ruin... More

With fly-rod and camera (1890) (14596108889)

With fly-rod and camera (1890) (14596108889)

Identifier: withflyrodcamera00samu (find matches) Title: With fly-rod and camera Year: 1890 (1890s) Authors: Samuels, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1836-1908 Subjects: Fishing Fishing Publisher: New York, F... More