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Frank Hagel (b. 1933) Oil on Board

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Frank Hagel (b. 1933) Oil on Board
Frank Hagel (b. 1933), Cree Trapper with Bull Boat (2010), oil canvas laid on board, 30 x 40 inches, signed and dated lower left

According to Frank Hagel, “A typical Cree trapper, circa 1860 is pulling a loaded ‘bull boat’ behind his bark canoe on the way to the trading post on the Red River near present day Manitoba. The round bull boat (a buffalo hide stretched over a willow framework) was often compared to the Welsh coracle, thought to have originated with the Vikings, and gave credence to the idea that the Mandans, who were sometimes blue eyed, may have had Viking ancstry.”