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Codex Canadensis
Codex Canadensis

This manuscript contains about 180 illustrations of people, plants, and animals in New France (a French colony in North America)—including a unicorn

Bannerstones, an introduction
Bannerstones, an introduction

Between 6000 and 1000 B.C.E., thousands of nomadic Native Americans travelled and lived along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, making enigmatic, carefully carved stones known today as bannerstones.

Anishinaabe shoulder bag
Anishinaabe shoulder bag

A bag that belonged to the first ordained Native American Methodist minister

The bandolier bag
The bandolier bag

From quills to beads: the bandolier bag

Global trade and an 18th-century Anishinaabe outfit
Global trade and an 18th-century Anishinaabe outfit

This outfit was likely made for a British lieutenant and gifted to him in a ritual exchange to show mutual respect.

Bandolier Bag
Bandolier Bag

These bags imitated the ones European soldiers carried their ammunition in, and were worn during ceremonies.

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