Iroquois Gallery

Iroquois Indians of Canada, 1818

Iroquois Indians of Canada, 1818. The man carries a musket, bow and quiver of arrows, and the woman holds a baby in a papoose. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Mary Anne Venning's A Geographical Present being Descriptions of the Principal Countries of the World, Darton, Harvey and Darton, London, 1818. Venning wrote educational books on geography, conchology and mineralogy in the early 19th century

© Florilegius

Fortified Onondaga Village

A walled and fortified village of the Onondaga people, part of the Iroquois Confederacy, is attacked by Samuel de Champlain and Huron soldiers. Champlain and his men attack from the left with guns, but are halted by the river that surrounds the village on both sides. Onondaga soldiers fire arrows back, as another one on a middle bank stokes a fire to create a smokescreen. Date: 1607

© Mary Evans Picture Library

La Salle's Party Feasted in the Illinois Village, January 2nd 1680

5857886 La Salle's Party Feasted in the Illinois Village, January 2nd 1680, 1847-1848 (oil on canvas) by Catlin, George (1796-1872); 42x60.5 cm; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA; (add.info.: Lasalle and party feasted in the Illinois village, 2d Jan. 1680.
Henri de Tonti (1649/50-1704) Italian lieutenant to RenA©-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-87) French explorer and fur trader in North America, their expedition spent the winter among the Illinois); American, out of copyright

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