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Canadian Prairie with human skull

Original caption “The Prairie Looking West.” Large-format photograph of a scene on the Canadian prairies. Shows bones (including a human skull) and an extremely flat horizon. Photographs taken at Lord Selkirk's settlement by Canadian photographer Humphrey Lloyd Hime on the Red River of the north, to illustrate a narrative of the Canadian exploring expeditions in Rupert's land by Henry Youle Hind, M.A.,

Yale University. "Photographs taken at Lord Selkirk's settlement on the Red River of the north...Saskatchewan expedition." Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Collection of Western Americana (WA Photos 110, 2011271) Accessible at: https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2011271

1860

Public Domain

DNO-0134_The-Prairie-Looking-West