The Aborigines of Minnesota by Newton H. Winchell, 1911, Minn. Hist. Soc.:St. Paul


Website Index to Selected Rock Art Topics, Page Numbers, with file sizes

Title Page
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Page 2
Dakota Traditions, Myths and Religion
Pg 506 bytes 205,525 (i.e. 205K) Pg 507 bytes 270,547 Pg 508 bytes 255552 Red Rock in 1909 (Painted Boulder, Newport, MN) Dakota Pictographs and Carvings
Pg 560 bytes 236050 Cave Pictographs, Houston County (Reno Cave)
Pg 561 bytes 156004 Pg 562 bytes 260563 Pictographs La Moille Cave, Winona County
Plate 2 left bytes 144314 Plate 2 middle bytes 171038 Plate 2 right bytes 157412 Plate 3 left bytes 130143 Plate 3 right bytes 148621 Plate 4 bytes 148576 Brown's Valley and Cottonwood County (Jeffers) Pictographs
Pg 563 bytes 165267 Pg 564 bytes 269354 Quartzyte Ridge Pictographs, Cottonwood County (Jeffers)
Plate 6 bytes 179199 The Region of the Pipestone Quarry
Plate 7 left bytes 119696 Plate 7 right bytes 133903 Pictographs at the Pipestone Quarry, Pipestone County
Plate 8 left bytes 157126 plate 8 middle bytes 163476 Plate 8 middle bytes 196285 Plate 8 right bytes 161784 Plate 8 right bytes 195642 Nicollet's Party Pictographs, 1838 at the Pipestone Quarry
Pg 565 bytes 136697 Dayton's Bluff Pictographs, Ramsey County
Pg 566 bytes 132921 Washington County Pictographs, near Stillwater
Pg 567 bytes 155966 Pg 568 bytes 163518 Ojibwa Totems and Pictographs
Pg 602 bytes 223548 Pg 603 bytes 273716 Pg 604 bytes 237685 Totem Signs of the Ojibwa Pg 605 bytes 134646 Plate 7 Totem Signs of the Ojibwa Pg 606 bytes 127504 Plate 8 Description by Ojibwa, near Corona, Carlton County
Pg 607 bytes 260628 Engraved hollow sandstone conePg 608 bytes 264908 Engraved hollow sandstone cone sketches; Pictographs at Nett Lake
Pg 609 bytes 180911 Buffalo Ouline, Murray County (boulder petroform) Buffalo Ouline sketch (boulder petroform) Celebrated Sioux Indians of Minnesota bytes 207218 (Portrait photos) Celebrated Ojibwa Indians of Minnesota bytes 207218 (Portrait photos)
Man and the Elephant and Mastodon Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 The Groselliers and Radisson fort Page 337 Page 338 Page 339 Grand Mound, Itasca County Page 368 Page 369 Page 370 Page 371 Page 372 Page 373 Page 374 Dakota Bow and Arrow Page 429 Stone Drills Page 482 Plate 1 Drills Dakota Pipes Page 488 Dakota Bear's Claw Necklace Page 491 Stone scrapers Plate 2 Scrapers Arrow points Plate 4 Arrow Points Axes Plate 2 Axes Pottery Plate 4 Pottery Plate 6 Pottery Plate 7 Pottery McKinstry Mounds Pottery Photograph of Mound Pottery Page 443 Ramsey County Mounds and Earthworks Page 261 Suburban Hills Mounds Page 262 Page 263 Page 264 Page 265Dayton's Bluff Mounds Page 266
Grey Cloud Island Mounds
pg267 pg268 pg269 Grey Cloud Island Mounds (left) Grey Cloud Island Mounds (right)
Copper Objects Page 498 Plate 1, of Copper Objects

Map: Distribution of the Dakota in MN in 1680 Map: Distribution of the Dakota in MN in 1834
Early Maps of MN Page 26 Text: 1673? Dutch Map, Marquette and Joliet, Bytes 228,142 Page 27 Copy of the Dutch Map, Bytes 220,951 Page 27 1683 "The Hennepin Map," Bytes 218,198 Page 27 Text: "The Hennepin Map" Bytes 234,437
Page 44 1755 Map by Robert de Vaugondy Page 47 1755 Map by Bellin Page 56 1783 Map by Laurie and Whittle (1794) Page 493 Map of Le Sueur's Fort and Copper Mine Preface Preface Biographical sketch of Alfred J. Hill Preface Preface Biographical sketch of Theodore H. Lewis Preface Biographical sketch of Jacob Vradenburg Brower Preface Preface Preface Preface The Earliest Indians in Minnesota Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 The Dakota in Minnesota Page 69 Page 70 Branches of the Dakotan Stock Page 71 Distribution of the Dakota Tribes in Minnesota Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Probable pre-Dakota Indians in Minnesota Page 76 The Ojibwa Page 580 Page 581 Plate 9 Plate 10 Page 583 Map of the Ojibways in 1852 Page 584 Page 585 Page 589 Page 590 Page 598 Ojibway pipe History of Minnesota Page 518 Brief History of the Dakota Page 519 Radisson and Chouart Page 520 Second Western Expedition Page 521 Page 522 Menard and the fugitive Hurons, Allouez' account of the Sioux Page 523 Marquette comes in contact with the Dakota Page 524 Duluth and Hennepin in Minnesota; Tonti's account of Dacan's Expedition Page 525 Page 526 Fort Perrot; Perrot takes possesion of Minnesota Page 527 Examination of the Mississippi above the Falls of St. Anthony; Fort Le Sueur Page 528 Fort L'Huillier Page 529 Page 530 Minnesota abandoned by fur-traders; Fort Beauharnois Page 531 Page 532 Battle of Kathio; Peace of Lusignan Page 533 Page 534 Page 535 Battle of Point Prescott Page 536 Page 537 Jonathan Carver Page 538 Battle of Crow Wing Page 539 Battles of Elk River; Battle of St. Croix Falls Page 540 The First Wabasha Page 541 Page 542 Page 543 Battle of Crow River Page 544 The Second Wabasha Page 545 Zebulon Pike in Minnesota Page 546 Page 547 Treaty of 1825 Page 548 Sioux Tract Page 549 The Third Wabasha Page 550 Page 551 Governor Ramsey and the Dakota Page 552 The Minnesota Dakota in 1851 Page 553
Bibliography of the Dakota page 1 Bibliography of the Dakota page 2 Bibliography of the Dakota page 3 Bibliography of the Dakota page 4
Index to the Volume (pages 741 to 766) Index A-Be Index Be-Bu Index Bu-Cl Index Cl-De Index De-Fi Index Fi-Gr Index Gr-Ho Index Ho-Ka Index Ke-Li Index Li-Md Index Me-Ni Index Ni-Pi Index Pi-Re Index Re-Se Index Se-Sw Index Sy-Ve Index Vi-Wi Index Wi-Zu

Newton H. Winchell's 1911 Aborigines of Minnesota is still one of the most valuable resources for rock art research in Minnesota. Winchell published many drawings and included information from the work of Theodore H. Lewis, Alfred J. Hill, and Jacob Brower. The copyright has expired on this work. This website therefore makes available to the general public some of the illustrations and text which may be of interest regarding rock art in Minnesota. Winchell's book has 761 numbered pages, 36 half tone page plates, 26 folded inserts, and 642 figures inserted in the text. This webpage scans only a very small portion of this monumental work and what is included here are sections that might be of interest to rock art researchers.

Each weblink is to a .jpg file scanned at 100 dpi and the files are usually between 150k and 220k per page. The .jpg is of one page, plate, or diagram in the text. This means it will be slow to load through a modem. You are getting relative image quality, not relatively fast loading speeds. These pages were scanned on the black and white photo setting and saved as medium compression .jpg's. This approach preserves the appearance of the original page but may test your patience waiting for a page to load. The advantage to this approach is that you should be able to read everything on the page on your computer screen, print it with readable (but not terrific) results on a regular piece of paper, be able to download a .jpg file with enough resolution to be able to manipulate the image in Photoshop should you need to, and not use up all of my server space. Scanning for a webpage is an exercise in compromise to avoid exhorbitantly large files.

To navigate from page to page you can hit your back button to return to this website index page or change the page number in your URL location field above and hit enter.

I should also mention that the original book is heavy, unwieldy, and had a thick binding so there will be some darkness on scans near the binding. Also, some of the plates are of unusual size which required a left, middle, and right side scan of the plate to get the whole thing. There were times I could have used 3, if not 4, hands.

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Links to other sites on the Web

Kevin L. Callahan's Home Page
Upper Midwest Rock Art Research Association (UMRARA)
Theodore H. Lewis and Alfred J. Hill
T.H. Lewis’s Field Methods for Tracing Petroglyphs
Ojibwe Culture and History
Dakota Culture and History

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