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Current Exhibition:American Treasures October 18, 2009 - August 21, 2010American Treasures celebrates the reopening of the newly renovated and expanded Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education at the University of Southern Maine. It explores the library’s rich and varied collections and its mission to preserve those collections and make them accessible. Beginning with the foundational gifts by the Smith and Osher families, the library’s collections emphasize Maine and New England, followed in order by the United States, the Americas, (continued) |
(click on image to view in greater detail) | LOUIS DE LAHONTAN (French, 1666-1715) [Various Ethnographic Images] From: Nouveaux voyages ... dans l'Amerique septentrionale ... (Paris, 1703, 2 vols.) Facsimiles of wood-cuts, each 13.4 x 8.5 cm Smith Collection |
[Various Ethnographic Images]Champlain had applied to New France the European habit of examining Native peoples in the same way as they examined landscapes. He was not alone in this regard. A century later, the tradition was still strong when the baron de Lahontan sketched these ethnographic images of various ceremonies and practices among the Abanaki. |
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