Sujet

Salmon-eaters of British Columbia, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

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Salmon-eaters of British Columbia, 1872. Engraving of a sketch by Mr. H. Y. Hind, representing '...the wild tribes of Indians on the coasts of the Gulf of Georgia and Queen Charlotte Sound, or of the narrow straits and inlets that form a labyrinthine channel between them, with the rivers that descend to that shore. Some of these tribes on the seacoast live entirely upon shell-fish; but others are better provided. The salmon ascend the rivers of British Columbia in such countless multitudes that tens of thousands perish in their attempts to regain the ocean, in consequence of an insufficient supply of water during the autumnal months. The tribes of Indians inhabiting the interior smoke and dry this delicious fish for their winter supply of food; and as the prairie Indians live on buffalo, so do many interior tribes on the west side of the mountain subsist on salmon'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A06_155

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NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

24,3Mo (2,8Mo) / 28,5cm x 21,4cm / 3361 x 2532 (300dpi)

Mots clés

food people male child children man men fish arts pipe art guy smoke costume fire clothes British Columbia British Canada fishes salmon smoking robes robe dress traditional costume native Native American seafood rack century Britain newspapers press clothing print Native Americans drying smoked APPAREL B&W American Indian smoked fish smoked salmon dried fish engraved engraving American Indians aquatic life 19th century black & white black and white B W tobacco pipe drying rack nineteenth century ray-finned fish The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN traditional dress wood engraving ILN indigenous newspaper indigenous people Unknown First Nation 19th-century clothing & dress fashion & clothing First Nations The Illustrated London News Henry Youle Hind Hind Henry Youle