Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 30″ (with base)
“According to Canadian tradition, he was not above middle height, though his muscular figure was cast in a mold of remarkable symmetry and vigor…his features had a bold and stern expression; while his habitual bearing was imperious and peremptory, like that of a man accustomed to sweep …
Bronze edition: 10 | Height: 25″ (with base)
“A well featured , wanton young girl…resorting to our fort, of the age of 11 or 12 years,” where she would get the boys “forth with her into the marketplace, and vie with them in turning handsprings!”
William Strachey, 1608
“A child …
Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 23″ | Length: 43″
“These Indians lead a very singular life. At one time of the year they live on a very small store of corn, beans and melons which they have planted; during another period, or about this time, their food is fish, without bread or any other meat; and …
Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 24″
“I had always supposed, heretofore, that the paintings and the busts I had seen of the Roman Emperors, represented the ideal of artists rather than men who had actually ever existed… until I came to this country (the land of the Hurons/Iroquois). For …
Bronze edition: 10 | Height: 16″
“Among all the nations and tribes in this vast extent of country, those called the Five Nations (Iroquois) stand distinguished and deserving of the first notice. They are dreaded and revered by all others for their superior understanding, activity and valor in …
Bronze edition: 10 | Height: 20″
“The men employ their time solely in hunting and other exercises of the bow, except that they sometimes take some pains at fishing.”
Edward Winslow (c. 1630)
Intuitively the Indians knew how essential it was to live in a right relationship with the land and its resources. …
Bronze edition: 50 | Height: 16″
In the deep snows and shortened days of the month of the snow moon, the moose hunter stalks his prey. More than any other animal, the moose will allow his Abenaki band to survive the lean months of winter. Weighing as much as 1200 lbs, and standing 7′ …
Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 29″
“Molly Molasses, the Grandmother of all Penobscot, still frequents our streets, receiving kindly coppers from the third generation of those who have known her as an old woman. She has no fixed idea of her own age, but it must be considerably over a hundred. Though much …
Bronze edition: 7 | Height: 34″ (with base)
James Fenimore Cooper’s fictional character, Chingachgook was supposedly the “last” of the Mohicans. They were called “Mahican” from the Dutch ‘Mahikander’, meaning ‘river people’ and their homeland was along much of the Hudson River Valley. An Algonkian people, they became trading partners with …
Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 28″ (with base)
“Englishman, although you have conquered the French, you have not conquered us!”
“Minavivana appeared to be about 50 years of age, he was well over 6′ in height and had in his countenance an indescribable mixture of good and evil. Looking steadfastly …
Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 25″
See “Pocahontas” for the description.
Bronze edition: 15 | Height: 40″
“Their food is whatever they can get from the chase and from fishing for they do not till the soil at all. In the month of February until the middle of March is the great hunt for beavers, otters, moose and bears and for …
Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 26″
A large bull Moose like this can reach 1200 lbs. with 4′ legs and a rack spanning 6′. The word Moose is derived from an Algonkian word meaning “twig eater”. It was the Moose that got the hunter-gatherer tribes of the north (like northern New England) through the winter. …
Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 34″
“On the 5th of July, 1645, the Iroquois reappeared at Three Rivers (Quebec), bringing with them two men of renown, ambassadors of the Mohawk Nation. The chief of the Iroquois was Kiosaeton of impressive size and symmetry. Standing erect in the prow of the French sailboat that had …
Bronze edition: 9 | Height: 32″
“Metacomet”, son of Massasoit, who had welcomed the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving, lived to see his large territory dwindle in the face of the insatiable English appetite for land. Rather than submit to a humiliating subjugation he launched “King Philips War” (1675-1676). It was the last great …
Bronze edition: 9 | Height: 30″
Kateri Tekakwitha was a Mohawk girl born in 1656. Soon after birth, she was scarred for life by a smallpox epidemic which took the life of every member of her family. Later, despite the hostility of most of the people of her village, she was converted to Catholicism by …
Bronze edition: 20 | Length: 66″ | Height: 30″
Two Abenaki hunters emerge from the forest and surprise a bull moose charging across a clearing through the drifted snow. The winter is the best time to hunt the moose since they are slowed by the deep snow, while northern native people, …
Bronze edition: 9 | Height: 32″ (with base)
“In the features of Brant may be seen the personification of the aristocratic, cruelly domineering Iroquois, natural men who are impassioned lovers of freedom and warfare …”
“Truly a man of two worlds,” feared by American colonists as the “monster Brant” – a war chief of the Mohawk …
Study of He Who is Without Equal He Who is Without Equal
Monument | Bronze edition: 7 | Height: 12 feet
Study | Bronze edition: 50 | Height: 28″
Above is the study and the monumental 12 foot tall sculpture that stands outside the Jud Hartmann Gallery in Blue Hill, Maine.
His …
Bronze edition: 20 | Height: 28″
Guyasuta was conspicuous at the defeats of General Braddock (1755) and of Major Grant at Fort Duquense (1758), the battles of Bushy Run and Devil’s hole in 1763, and the destruction of Hannahstown, Pennsylkvania during the Revolutionary War in 1782. Early …
