Furs

Information on The Cree

Abel Brien, a Cree trapper and his wife, Elizabeth, with pelts fom their autumn catch of Pine Martens,at Lake Bourinot, Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

A Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, holding a beaver skin stretched out on a frame to dry. North Quebec, Canada. 1988

Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, cuts fur from a caribou skin that will be used for snowshoes. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

Elizabeth Brien,a Cree woman, threads caribou hide lacing onto a pair of snowshoes. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

Abel Brien, a Cree hunter standing by beaver skins stretched onto frames to dry at Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

A Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, holding a beaver skin stretched out on a frame to dry. North Quebec, Canada. 1988

Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien scrapes the fur off a stretched caribou skin. Northern Quebec. Canada. 1988

Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, cleaning an otter skin which has been stretched on a wooden frame at a camp near Lake Bourinot, Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

Cree trapper, Abel Brien, holding pelts from his autumn catch of Pine Martens at Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988