Paul Kane's Journal of his Western Travels, 1846-1848 - History and ...

Woman's dress, Plains Cree, c. 184Os. EJkhide
decorated with porcupine quiJ[work, trade
cloth, beadwork, and fringing. Northern
Plains, Fort Edmonton area. This dress was
worn by Cun-ne-wa-bum in her portrait (see
opposite page) and is one o/the many Native
American objects collected by Paul Kane. Collection,
Manitoba Museum o/Man & Nature,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
the instep and feeles vrry
mutch as if the boans ware
brock and the brcken ends
ware grateing together at
evry step, in the night the
river got darned up below
which caused the ise to be
throughed up in such emense
mases that I thought that
it would cum into our in
= campment it was acompen
= ed with a tremendious noys
21 st Snow all day
22d. came to Bateseis River
half way which we had to
go a long ways up to cross
it being open water at the
mouth provishions getting
scarse could not feede the
dogs my guide tells me
that they will live a month
without eateing.
230 found the snow verry
de~
24lh. went thrugh the woods
to avoid the open water and
had to let our sled down
a stepe bank with a rope
and threw they dogs after
it op to the ise
25th. camped arleiar then
ushial could not pass ov
=er the luse ise nor asend
the stepe bank
~ wore snow shews to
cross the brken ise our
dogs went and ware nere
caried under sled and all
the guide fortunatley had
a hoald of a coard behind
which saved them from
gowing down in cutting po
=ints found the snow verrey
depe
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