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Activities: Huron
Iroquois Village Attack An unsuccessful attack by French and Huron allies on an Iroquois (Onondaga) village on Lake Ontario, 1615, including a fanciful castle-storming French siege-tower.
ID #10071
St. Louis, 1648 Huron Indians unsuccessfully defending a mission village at St. Louis in 1648, against old Five Nations enemies.
ID #10079
Huron Deer Hunt A stylized European 17th century picture (with fences) of a deer hunt by Huron Indians, produced for the accounts of Samuel de Champlain's travels, published in Paris in 1632).
ID #10041
Activities: Inuit & Northwest Territories
Inuit Seal Hunting Seal hunting by the Inuit included waiting and listening at seal-holes on the ice, as portrayed by Captain G. Lyon during a search for the North West Passage, 1821-1823.
ID #10029
Winter Sled Teams Sled teams engaged in winter travel in the Coppermine Region, North West Territories, in a photo taken about 1949.
ID #10053
Sealskin Sewing A summer camp at White Bay, North West Territories, a later scene (1951) presenting an Inuit woman sewing sealskins pegged out to dry on slopes above the shores.
ID #10055
Inuit String Game An Inuit string game shown among occupants of the Padlei country, North West Territories.
ID #10094
Tapping Birch Trees Indian woman tapping birch trees, Resolution, N.W.T.
ID #21865
Sealskin Shoes Making sealskin shoes, Inuit, N.W.T.
ID #21885
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