TitleMenominee Joe and Jerome Dakota paddling near Eagle Island in Wisconsin
InstitutionDickinson County Library
SubjectCanoes and canoeing
SubjectIndians of North America -- Boats
Item NumberAF01a088
RelationItem also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
DescriptionMenominee Joe, left, and Jerome Dakota, Indians from the Badwater Indian village, paddled their birch bark canoe near Eagle Island in the Spread Eagle Chain of Lakes, Wisconsin, during the summer of 1896. The canoe is similar to birch bark canoes purchased fro the Badwater Indians at a cost of one dollar per foot.
