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The Excavation of Ste Marie I

By: Kenneth E. Kidd

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This report sets forth the results of the excavation of the site known as Ste Marie I on the Wye River, near Midland, Ontario. It is hoped that it will be in some measure a contribution to our knowledge of a small but important episode in Canadian history; namely, the activities of the Jesuit Fathers in the decade of their residence among the Huron Indians. In the decade of their residence among the Hurons, the Jesuits attempted to build a native commonwealth founded on Christian belief: an attempt which was suddenly and utterly ended by the Iroquois raids of 1649. The very heart and core of this famous enterprise was the establishment called by the Jesuits themselves Ste Marie. Hitherto, knowledge of it has been confined to what could be learned from written records; this can now be augmented, especially in regard to its physical aspects, with the information obtained by means of archaeology, and presented in this report.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487590822

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9781487590826

Indian Rock Paintings of the Great Lakes

By: Selwyn Dewdney,Kenneth E. Kidd

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Indian Rock Paintings of the Great Lakes

By: Selwyn Dewdney,Kenneth E. Kidd

This book describes in word and illustration the results of an exciting quest on the part of its authors to discover and record Indian rock paintings of Northern Ontario and Minnesota. Numerous drawings were made from these pictographs at a hundred different sites; the originals range in age from four to five hundred years to a thousand, and were done with the simplest materials: fingers for brushes, fine clay impregnated with ferrous oxide giving the characteristic red paint. Where an overhanging rock protected a vertical face from dripping water or on dry, naked rock faces the Indians recorded the forest life with which they lived in intimate association—deer, caribou, rabbit, heron, trout, canoes, animal tracks—and also abstractions which puzzle and intrigue the modern viewer. Many of the paintings could only have been done from a canoe or a convenient rock ledge. Selwyn Dewdney travelled many thousands of miles by canoe to make the drawings of the pictographs which illustrate every page of this fascinating and attractive book. He provides also a general analysis of the materials used by the Indians, of their subject-matter and the artistic rendering given to it, and his artist's journal records in detail the sites he visited, the paintings he found at each, the comparisons among them that came to mind, the references to rock paintings in early literature of the Northwest. Kenneth E. Kidd contributes a valuable essay on the anthropological background of the area, linking the rock paintings with early cave art in, for example, France and Spain, describing the life of the Indians in the Shield country, and commenting on what the pictographs reveal of their makers' attitudes to their external world and of their thinking. This is a book which will appeal to a wide audience: to those interested in primitive art forms and in Canadian art in general, to all students of the early history of North America, to travellers who in increasing numbers follow the canoe trails of the Shield lakes and rivers.

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321

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University of Toronto Press

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1442638230

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9781442638235

Algonkians of Lake Nipigon

An Archaeological Survey

By: Kenneth C. A. Dawson

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Algonkians of Lake Nipigon

An Archaeological Survey

By: Kenneth C. A. Dawson

Archaeological survey and excavation at Lake Nipigon has revealed the presence of Shield, Laurel, and Algonkian cultures with the most intensive occupation during the Terminal Woodland period. Evidence is also presented for the interaction of the Western Algonkians of the area with Northern, Southern and Eastern Algonkian groups.

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163

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University of Ottawa Press

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1772820458

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9781772820454

Civil War Dynasty

The Ewing Family of Ohio

By: Kenneth J. Heineman

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Civil War Dynasty

The Ewing Family of Ohio

By: Kenneth J. Heineman

Brings to life the drama of political intrigue and military valor of the Ewing family.

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NYU Press

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081477301X

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9780814773017

Book's by Kenneth E. Kidd

The Excavation of Ste Marie I

The Excavation of Ste Marie I

Indian Rock Paintings of the Great Lakes

Indian Rock Paintings of the Great Lakes

Algonkians of Lake Nipigon

Algonkians of Lake Nipigon

Civil War Dynasty

Civil War Dynasty

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