Native American Indians Fishing by Torchlight, Fox River

Native Americans Indians fishing at night by torchlight. One spears the fish while the other paddles. The Fox River is a river in northern Manitoba, Canada used by Indian canoes to bring furs to the Hudson's Bay Company posts of Hudson Bay. Paul Kane (September 3, 1810 - February 20, 1871) was an Irish-born Canadian painter famous for his paintings of First Nations peoples in the Canadian West and in the Columbia District. A self-educated artist, Kane trained himself by copying European masters on a study trip through Europe. The first trip (1845) took him from Toronto to Sault Ste. Marie and back. He set out on a second voyage (1846-48) from Toronto across the Rocky Mountains to Fort Vancouver and Fort Victoria. Kane produced more than 100 oil paintings, although he often embellished them, departing from the accuracy of his field sketches in favor of more dramatic scenes

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Anishinaabe Canoe Ethnography Manitoba Ninth Salvage Torchlight

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