Notes: | Tracing by Pierre Margry made 1846 from ca. 1728 ms. map compiled for Pierre Gaultier de Varrenes, sieur de La Vérendrye, from Cree Indian sources, including Ochagach.
'Recopiée par moi le 8 7bre 1846. P.M.'
Added title: Carte tracée par les Cris.
Original map in Service Hydrographique archives, no. B 4044-16; ms. variant, no. B 4044-84.
Shows waterways in western Canada and the West (U.S.) from the northern shore of Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods, Lake Winnipeg, the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and the lower Saskatchewan and Assiniboine Rivers. Identifies portages, rapids, tribal regions, and Fort Kaministiquia. Includes 34 numbered sites apparently meant to accompany map legend (lacking).
Scales differ.
Pencil and pen-and-ink. Drawn on 7 sheets pasted together; mounted on cloth.
Various ms. and printed versions of this map are discussed and reproduced in: Lewis, G. Malcom. 'Indicators of unacknowledged assimilations from Amerindian maps on Euro-American maps of North America' in Imago Mundi 38 (1986) p. 9-22; Lewis, G. Malcom. 'Indian maps' in Old trails and new directions / ed. by Carol Judd and Arthur Ray (Toronto: U. of Toronto Pr., 1980) p. 15-16; Dahl, Edward and Conrad Heidenreich. 'French mapping of North America' in Map Collector 19 (June 1982) p. 4-6; Vollmar, Rainer. Indianische Karten Nordamerikas (Berlin: Deitrich Reimer Verlag, 1981) p. 52-53.
Smith, C.A. List of ms. maps Ayer Coll., 186.
Forms part of both the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection and the Pierre Margry Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library).
Photographic transparency available in Spec. Coll. Image Index.
Digital image on the Illinois Library Delivery Service CARLI Web site (accessed Nov. 2007): http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/nby_grlakes&CISOPTR=1617
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