1755/00/00 Map of the country about the Mississippi
Title
1755/00/00 Map of the country about the Mississippi
Date
ca. 1755
Creator
Chegeree
Description
Inscribed lower right: "Drawn by Chegeree the [Miami?] Indian who Says he has Traveled through the Country."
Orientation with north toward the upper right. Shows area from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Ohio River. Includes Sandusky "Sianusski" emended to "Sanduksy" by another hand on the Ohio shore of Lake Erie. A "Wandot" [Wyandot] village is shown just south of a "Tawas" [Ottawa, Odawa] village across the river from "French" Detroit. In this section the captioning is inverted as compared to the main orientation of the map. See files.
Online resources from the Library of Congress:
[1] https://www.loc.gov/item/74695023/
[2] http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3300.ct000378
[3] https://lccn.loc.gov/74695023
Published in:
[1] Warhus, Mark. Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land. New York: St. Marttin's Press, 1997. Pp. 109-113. Excellent discussion of the significance of the map, however no mention of the Wandot village. Small indistinct illustration.
Orientation with north toward the upper right. Shows area from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Ohio River. Includes Sandusky "Sianusski" emended to "Sanduksy" by another hand on the Ohio shore of Lake Erie. A "Wandot" [Wyandot] village is shown just south of a "Tawas" [Ottawa, Odawa] village across the river from "French" Detroit. In this section the captioning is inverted as compared to the main orientation of the map. See files.
Online resources from the Library of Congress:
[1] https://www.loc.gov/item/74695023/
[2] http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3300.ct000378
[3] https://lccn.loc.gov/74695023
Published in:
[1] Warhus, Mark. Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land. New York: St. Marttin's Press, 1997. Pp. 109-113. Excellent discussion of the significance of the map, however no mention of the Wandot village. Small indistinct illustration.
Identifier
G3300 1755 .C5
Original Format
Manuscript (pen and ink) on paper
Physical Dimensions
map on sheet 34 x 42 cm. mounted on sheet 39 x 65 cm.
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