<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Drawings of Canadian beaver hunting</dc:title><dc:date>[ca. 1730?]</dc:date><dc:language>fre</dc:language><dc:description>Eight drawings mounted in a later album, seven of them rendered in red chalk. Drawings depict Native American hunters smoking pipes, carrying a canoe, carrying pelts, and a woman carrying a papoose; coureurs du bois holding guns; scenes from beaver hunting: pulling down dams, breaking apart beaver lodges, breaking ice and shooting beaver with bows and arrows; as well as a drawing of an otter and a watercolor of a beaver</dc:description><dc:description>Spine title: Castors.</dc:description><dc:description>Artist unidentified. The third drawing carries the name Legras in manuscript in the top left corner.</dc:description><dc:description>Manuscript captions.</dc:description><dc:description>Captions in French.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>