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Title: Our misadventure with raft in crossing the Canoe River [Canada]
Creator: Leitch, R. P. (active ca. 1865), artist Cooper, J., engraver
Date Created and/or Issued: 1865
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Cheadle and Assiniboine Indian rush along bank toward Milton and Assiniboine woman who are clinging to fallen tree in flooded river. Mr. O'B is on raft just past tree.
Title from caption in book: Our misadventure witht raft in crossing the Canon [sic] River. Handwirtten (LL): Franzer River. Printed (LR, within image): J. Cooper, sc.; (LR, within image): R.P.L. [monogram for R.P. Leitch]. From publication: The North-West passage by land (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1865), pg. 271.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: engraving 10.5 x 17.3 cm., on mount 18.8 x 27.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf809nb8b9
BANC PIC 1963.002:0502:13--A
Subject: Canada
Expeditions & surveys
Indians of North America
Rivers

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