Images

Inuit snow goggles from Alaska – top pair made of wood c. 1880-1890, bottom pair made of Caribou antler c. 1000-1800.

Image of Native Americans making a dugout canoe using seashell scrapers c. 1590, titled The Manner of Making Their Boates, engraving by Theodor de Bry, after a watercolor by John White. John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

Oglala Sioux girl in front of a tipi, probably on Pine Ridge Reservation, with her pet puppy, photo by John C. H. Grabill, 1891. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

An illustration titled The Scientists by Rita Greer showing the scientists Robert Hooke (1635-1703) and Robert Boyle (1627-1691) conducting an experiment with an air pump.

A map illustrating the situation in Europe around May 1917, during the First World War (World War I or The Great War), as the conflict had already raged on for nearly three years. The United States had recently entered the war, beginning...

A model of Bigfoot who is a creature from the folklore of Plains Indians Nations as well as First Nations of modern-day Canada and others of the east coast of the modern USA. (Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs...

A pottery vessel decorated with a horned serpent. The serpent, horned serpent, and water serpent figure is common to the legends of all Native American Nations in North America. From the United States or Mexico, c. 1280 to c. 1450. (Art Institute...

An artist's impression of a Wendigo, a voracious monster of the First Nations of Canada and Plans Indians culture. (deviantart.com)

An artist's impression of a Wendigo, a voracious monster of the First Nations of Canada and Plans Indians culture.

Siege of Nöteborg (1702), oil on canvas by Alexander Kotzebue. Peter the Great (1682-1721) assaults the island fortress of Nöteborg, which he renamed Shlisselburg, recognising it as the "key" to taking Ingria.