Mi’kmaq hunter representation

A modern, more ethnographically accurate 1920 update of an earlier 1796 rendition of the hunting, fishing, and gathering tools of Acadians, or what could have been the Mi'kmaq people. ...

Inside a wigwam

A drawing of the inside of a wigwam, which is the traditional dwelling used in the daily life of an Algonquian family. ...

Arrival of Jacques Cartier at Stadacona, 1535

A Victorian-era watercolour illustration of Jacques Cartier's arrival in Stadacona, which was traditional Iroquoian territory in the 1500s. Note that the Iroquois had boats and were fishing in that area, but that they were known to fish even further...

Loix des Douzes Tables

The Twelve Tables Rome's First Legal Code is Drawn up by a Commission Number 36 in Figures de l'histoire de la république romaine accompagnées d'un précis historique, Paris, an VIII. ...