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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Indian Rock Paintings of the Great Lakes

Indian Rock Paintings of the Great Lakes

Dewdney, Selwyn
Kidd, Kenneth

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Native American HistoryAnthropology

ISBN10: 1442639873
ISBN13: 9781442639874
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1962
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

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.

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