Indian Encampment on the Coast of Grand Manan Island, Canada
date: label: Date
content: September 1851
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Landscape and figure sketch showing a view of a Native American encampment on the shores of Grand Manan Island in Canada. The camp is visible in the foreground at lower right. Two canoes rest on their sides on the rocky beach while, beyond them, two figures wearing hats--one wearing a top hat and the other, a brimmed hat resembling a bowler--hold oars or skewers beside a smoking fire. Above them, three fish have been gutted and cleaned, and hang from a wooden spit to smoke. At right, a sitting figure who also wears a hat holds and investigates a large, woven basket beside a makeshift hut, constructed of planks and driftwood. Soaring, rocky cliffs tower above them and overlap one another as they recede into the distance towards North Head, which extends into the ocean in the background at left. Trees and other vegetation are sketched along the cliffs.
place: label: made in
content: New Brunswick, Canada
label: place depicted
content: New Brunswick, Canada
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-1274
objectType: label: Type
content: landscapes
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite on light brown wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: 31.7 × 44.7 cm (12 1/2 × 17 5/8 in.)