Very cool, Diopter. Those cunning Germans...
The way they've covered over the amputated wing I'd bet they were planning to salvage the whole thing. Must have been quite a pilot to put it down there in that condition, or else damned lucky.
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The way they've covered over the amputated wing I'd bet they were planning to salvage the whole thing. Must have been quite a pilot to put it down there in that condition, or else damned lucky.
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Image No: NA-3730-1
Title: Dog Child and wife, Blackfoot.
Date: [ca. 1890s]
Photographer/Illustrator: Trueman and Caple, Vancouver, British Columbia
Remarks: Dog Child, North West Mounted Police scout, standing in front of tipi; wife holding horse. Also known as "Winnipeg Jack". Note Japanese sword. Trueman and Caple photograph number 115.
Subject(s): Blackfoot - Personalities / Blackfoot - Government relations / Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Scouts and scouting / Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Personalities
Now how did he get a Japanese Katana in the 1890's?
Sent away for it.
Image No: NA-3730-1
Title: Dog Child and wife, Blackfoot.
Date: [ca. 1890s]
Photographer/Illustrator: Trueman and Caple, Vancouver, British Columbia
Remarks: Dog Child, North West Mounted Police scout, standing in front of tipi; wife holding horse. Also known as "Winnipeg Jack". Note Japanese sword. Trueman and Caple photograph number 115.
Subject(s): Blackfoot - Personalities / Blackfoot - Government relations / Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Scouts and scouting / Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Personalities
Now how did he get a Japanese Katana in the 1890's?
Amazon.com?
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Obtained in trade w/coastal people via BC interior natives?
Obtained in trade w/coastal people via BC interior natives?
Fascinating trials video footage of the Swedish Stridsvagn 103.
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Lots of interesting bits about the engineering of the vehicle. The fuel tanks are all located outside the main armour belt, and are considered part of the protective system. The fuel itself is expected to aid in decelerating incoming projectiles before it hits the main armour belt, and flame off outside the main cabin.
Some of the claims about crew survivability in various scenarios are a bit dubious. Shrapnel and spalling damage inside the crew cab being described as "minor" - I kind of doubt it. Any shrapnel pinging around inside the crew cab would strike me as being the making for a very bad day.
It is interesting to see it shrug off a direct hit from a 500LB Napalm air dropped bomb.
Activate the subtitles to see the translation.
Lots of interesting bits about the engineering of the vehicle. The fuel tanks are all located outside the main armour belt, and are considered part of the protective system. The fuel itself is expected to aid in decelerating incoming projectiles before it hits the main armour belt, and flame off outside the main cabin.
Some of the claims about crew survivability in various scenarios are a bit dubious. Shrapnel and spalling damage inside the crew cab being described as "minor" - I kind of doubt it. Any shrapnel pinging around inside the crew cab would strike me as being the making for a very bad day.
It is interesting to see it shrug off a direct hit from a 500LB Napalm air dropped bomb.
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Obtained in trade w/coastal people via BC interior natives?
Interesting to speculate about that sword. Western trade with Japan really didn't start until after 1850 and Japanese immigrants started to arrive in Canada until the 1870s. The trans-continental RR started to function in 1885 so there are many possibilities. The natives traded quite extensively with each other in the pre-European contact period. Knife River flint from N. Dakota was in high demand and its found in archaeological sites in the artic and across the continent. I used to find many fragments walking the fields around Brandon, MB.Shells from the Gulf of Mexico also made their way up into Canada. Volcanic obsidian was highly prized as well.
Lots of ways he could have got that sword, there was a Japanese "fancy goods" importer in BC by the 1880s. Thousands of well-heeled westerners were touring Japan by that time, buying souvenirs in large quantities. Japanese art was very, very fashionable and influential; it was was one of the foundations of the Aesthetic Movement. Japan was a sort of medieval hermit kingdom which had just been opened up like a time capsule. How many times does a chance to see something like that come along? Lots of those visitors, and lots of people with business or government careers in the "Far East" came to Montreal by ship, crossed Canada on the train, picked up the CPR steamships in Vancouver and were in Yokohama or Kobe within 16-18 days. IIRC there was a CPR steamer going each way once a week, even in the 1890s. By the mid-Meiji period the Japanese were specifically making swords and daggers for export, usually poorer quality blades of course for the undiscerning buyers, and often with what by their ideas were gaudy and tasteless decorations, but which they thought would appeal to Westerners used to the "complexity equals quality" aesthetic. So old Dog Child there may have been offered a trade by a tourist returning from Asia who wanted to pick up some aboriginal artifacts as well, or some local who knew what would appeal to him. Looks like he has an ivory handled Navy Colt(?) and we can see they're both in their "Sunday best": wife with her beadwork and he with buffalo coat etc.
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Just speculating; the revolver, because of the lanyard swivel, may be the Remington 1875. Very high tech for the day. Appears this fellow was a man of means. Coat/clothing, sword, revolver, other accoutrements, this guy was living large.
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He knew what he was about regarding handguns. I do loves me a Remington. Here's another fan...
Bet he jingled when he walked, assuming he could get up out of that chair with all that hardware. Probably lived in fear of falling off a boat.
He knew what he was about regarding handguns. I do loves me a Remington. Here's another fan...
Bet he jingled when he walked, assuming he could get up out of that chair with all that hardware. Probably lived in fear of falling off a boat.
You kidding right? Duck Lake! First shot of the Northwest Rebellion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Duck_Lake
I got to know some natives and Metis socially. At one get together where I was the token whitey, an elderly lady started to talk and everyone listened respectfully. I asked what she was talking about and was told - "Duck Lake and Batoche".
She was passing on the oral lore and tradition to the young people. Sadly, most of them were unable to fully understand her.
She was passing on the oral lore and tradition to the young people. Sadly, most of them were unable to fully understand her.
Back to Batoche weekend is and has been for a long time, quite the "get together". I used to shoot gophers on the site. Now there is a very nice interpretive centre and guided tours. I don't think they would want a bunch of 14 year olds with .22s running around there, any more.
How about a Gabriel Dumont memorial shoot of period weaponry, the participants in period dress and costume?
A native lady friend of mine was travelling on the Blackfoot Confederacy lands and they were invited to participate in the re-enactment at |Little Big Horn. They had the look and the long hair and were told they would be dressed on the site. She came back with some great pics of them being pursued by the Cavalry and dancing after the annihilation.
A native lady friend of mine was travelling on the Blackfoot Confederacy lands and they were invited to participate in the re-enactment at |Little Big Horn. They had the look and the long hair and were told they would be dressed on the site. She came back with some great pics of them being pursued by the Cavalry and dancing after the annihilation.
I would have had a stovepipe had & given the waifu the derby. Pretty good turnout though.
... OTOH nothing wrong with a derby and IIRC the wind NEVER stops on the prairie ... and a man could spend a lot of time chasing a top hat around..... if the wife happened to be out somewhere picking berry's and all.
