“Indian Wigwams of Birch Bark”, 1898
![A painting of several bark huts in a clearing at the edge of a lake. Eight First Nations people in traditional dress are visible walking, talking, sitting in the door of a wigwam and cooking food over a campfire.](https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/oshawa-automotive-community_communaute-automobile/wp-content/uploads/sites/121/2019/11/1898-Shrapnel-Painting.jpg)
The Oshawa Museum
Overprint entitled Indian Wigwams of Birch Bark, created by artist Edward S. Shrapnel for Thomas Conant’s 1898 book Upper Canada Sketches. One of a very small number of surviving colonial-era works of art depicting the Oshawa area, this image has been prominently featured in many works of local history.