Tents

Information on The Cree

The light from a kerosene lamp illuminates a Cree winter tent in boreal forest near Lake Bournot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

Sam Edwards, a Cree trapper, scraping a caribou skin pegged out to dry at a winter camp. Northern Quebec, Canada.1988

Canoes in front of a lakeside house at the Cree village of Chisasibe, Quebec, Canada. 1988

Elizabeth Brien, a Cree woman laying spruce twigs on the tent floor at a bush camp. Mistissini, Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

A Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, preparing to smoke white fish on racks at a camp by Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

A Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, preparing a beaver for a family feast. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

A Cree boy, Johnny, peeps through the tent door at a camp on the banks of Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

Elizabeth Brien, a Cree woman chops firewood at the family's winter camp at Lake Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

Abel Brien, a Cree hunter, contructing the frame of a traditional winter tent nearv Lak Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

Abel Brien, a Cree hunter, contructing the frame of a traditional winter tent nearv Lak Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

Abel Brien, a Cree hunter, contructing the frame of a traditional winter tent nearv Lak Bourinot. Northern Quebec, Canada. 1988

A Cree woman, Elizabeth Brien, lays spruce twigs on the tent floor at a bush camp. Quebec, Canada. 1988

The interior of a Cree Indian tent. Franklin's first expedition 1819-1822.