18th Century Material Culture

The Native Americans

Canoes

Canoes

Detail: A Sketch of the River Exploits and the East End of Lieutenants Lake in Newfoundland
Camp of the Beoethuk
by John Cartwright c. 1773
(The Rooms Provincial Archives Division, St. Johns NL)

An Iroquois Canoe made of Elm

18th Century
(Private Collection)

Canoe Model of the Wabenaki (Abenaki), Possibly Maliseet or Passamaquoddy - Northeastern Maine / New Brunswick, Canada
Birchbark, Wood, & Pigment 18th Century
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Canoe Model of the Wabenaki (Abenaki), Possibly Maliseet or Passamaquoddy - Northeastern Maine / New Brunswick, Canada
Birchbark, Wood, & Pigment 18th Century
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Canoe Model of the Wabenaki (Abenaki), Possibly Maliseet or Passamaquoddy - Northeastern Maine / New Brunswick, Canada
Birchbark, Wood, & Pigment 18th Century
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Mi'kmaq (Micmac) Canoe Model

Birchbark, Wood, Spruce Root, & Porcupine Quill 18th Century
(Peabody Essex Museum)

Bark Canoe of Lieutenant John Enys

H.M. 29th Regiment of Foot
(Canadian Canoe Museum)

Bark Canoe of Lieutenant John Enys

H.M. 29th Regiment of Foot
(Canadian Canoe Museum)

Bark Canoe of Lieutenant John Enys

H.M. 29th Regiment of Foot
(Canadian Canoe Museum)

Paddles

Cree Paddle
Collected by George Holt of the Hudson Bay Co. between 1768 & 1771
(Nagy Collection - Splendid Heritage)

Captain Bulls War Party at Fort Ticonderoga

Captain Bulls War Party at Fort Ticonderoga

Captain Bulls War Party at Fort Ticonderoga

Captain Bulls War Party at Fort Ticonderoga

Canoe Model
18th Century
(Canadian Museum of Civilization)

Painted Model of a Birchbark Canoe with Cloth Sail - Probably Abenaki, Trois Rivieres
c. 1775
(Hessisches Landemuseum Darmstadt)

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