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Members of the Squamish Nation paddle to a 1997 festival celebrating Native canoe arts.
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Celebrating Traditional Canoes

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The siphonophores are an order of marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria (the same phylum containing jellyfish). 
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Prints from Ernst Haeckel

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Map depicting the archaeological excavation site at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada in 2009
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Archaeological Site Map of Hare Harbor

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A map of the early European whaling site at Hare Harbor in Quebec, Canada
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Map of Early European Whaling Region

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Traditional Native festivities often included ceremonial objects like this bowl.
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Feasting Bowl

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Whalers hunted right whales for baleen, which was used in a variety of commercial products such as umbrellas and whips.
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Ad for Whale Baleen Umbrellas

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a wood frame dries walrus hide
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Walrus Hide

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This painting of swarthy buccaneers in the midst of a fierce battle was painted by the prolific American marine painter Frederick J. Waugh, and won the Thomas B. Clarke award in 1910 for the best American figure composition.
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The Buccaneers painting

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A diagram of the different soil layers located at Hare Harbor, Quebec in 2008. Wood chips were located at the deepest layer, then whale bone, then codfish bones.
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Underwater Archaeological Stratigraphy

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A large group of dancers from the island of Tokelau dance during fiafia, evening entertainment)
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Water is Rising: Pacific Islands, Art, and Climate Change

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This raven routinely observed master carver Douglas Chilton as he shaped the canoe.
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Raven Watches the Carver

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A red and yellow gyotaku-style fish print of a flounder
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Gyotaku Flounder

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