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Post by lenapej on Feb 25, 2020 17:36:16 GMT -7
Here is a video I put together this past fall.
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Keith
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Bushfire close but safe now. Getting some good rain.
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Post by Keith on Feb 25, 2020 19:37:13 GMT -7
Well done, good editing.
Keith.
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Post by spence on Feb 25, 2020 20:52:52 GMT -7
I've been enjoying some of the videos on your site. Good production values, nice kit.
Spence
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Post by spence on Feb 26, 2020 7:22:56 GMT -7
Lenape, I found the picture accompanying the Bouquet map in your research & application video interesting and would like a copy. Do you have it in a form that can be posted to the forum?
Spence
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Post by lenapej on Feb 26, 2020 8:24:14 GMT -7
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Post by nwterritorywoodsman on Feb 26, 2020 8:37:59 GMT -7
Well hey, theres a map of my backyard, who knew  . NWT Woodsman |
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Post by spence on Feb 26, 2020 9:00:55 GMT -7
Thank you very much. I'm particularly interested in the scenes of the NAs with their blankets. Seeing all of them with blankets draped in different ways as clothing reminded me of a description by Isaac Weld.
"Travels Through the States of North America and the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, During the Years of 1795, 1796 and 1797", by Isaac Weld, Jr.
"The moccasins, leggings, and breech cloth constitute the whole of the dress which they wear when they enter upon a campaign, except indeed it be a girdle, from which hangs their tobacco pouch and scalping knife, &C; nor do they wear anything more when the weather is very warm; but when it is cool, or when they dress themselves to visit their friends, they put on a short shirt, loose at the neck and wrists, generally made of coarse figured cotton or calico, of some gaudy pattern, not unlike what would be used for window or bed curtains at a common inn in England. Over the shirt they wear either a blanket, large piece of broad cloth, or else a loose coat made somewhat similarly to a common riding frock; a blanket is more commonly worn than anything else. They tie one end of it round their waste [sic] with a girdle, and then drawing it over their shoulders, either fasten it across their breasts with a skewer, or hold the corners of it together, in the left hand. One would imagine that this last mode of wearing it could not but be highly inconvenient to them, as it must deprive them in a great measure of the use of one hand; yet it is the mode in which it is commonly worn, even when they are shooting in the woods; they generally, however, keep the right arm disengaged when they carry a gun, and draw the blanket over the left shoulder."
I was also surprised to see the Indian women with babies, one lower left, three lower right. And, I don't recall seeing depictions before of NA women bare-breasted as two of them are in the scenes.
Seeing the Indian man offering wampum brings to mind that Bouquet and his officers carried out the first recorded germ warfare in North America by giving the Indians blankets from the smallpox hospital and triggering an outbreak among the tribes in the area. Too bad about the babies.
Spence
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