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EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 621 A Cree Canoe On Lac Les Isles, 1926. 11.5x15.6" image on 13.75x17.75" copper photogravure plate. Plate date 1928. From Portfolio 18, Northern Woodlands and Alberta, Canada, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Plate 621 / A Cree Canoe On Lac Les Isles, 1926 / From Copyright Photograph 1926 by E.S. Curtis / Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge Mass. Curtis wrote about this image: "The Western Woods Cree, Bush Cree, Swampy Cree, or Maskegon, as they are variously known, are scattered in numerous bands through the wooded country north of the prairies between Hudson Bay and the Peace river drainage. Other members of this large family inhabit the plains of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and the country from Lake Winnipeg to Lakes Mistassini and Nitchequon in the Province of Quebec. They are members of the great Algonquian stock, and are closely related to the Chippewa. Lac les Isles, locally known as Big Island Lake, is in west-central Saskatchewan, near the Alberta border. The canoe is a well-made craft of birch-bark."