There are total 4 people in the picture.All of them are in the place that called trading posts.It seems that they are having a trade of animals' fur.The Native Americans always use furs to trade some tools.In this picture, the Native people is using furs to trade a gun(It seems like a gun).At the moment that the picture shows, all of the men are checking what they got from this business, they must check carefully.It seems that trade is very important to them.In addition thought.I think the native is a hunter,he will use the gun that he traded to kill more animals ,so that he can use their furs to trade more useful tools to make his life more comfortable.
There are 3 people on this picture. Two of them are trading .They use the gun to trade fur.The other person is sitting and waiting for her husband(I think they are couple.).There are also a dog and some boxes around her,she is sitting in one of the boxes.The woman looks not very happy,in fact , she looks helpless.I think she may like the fur which her husband trade very much,or she dose not like killing animals,but they have to do this for live.They maybe very poor,whatever the reason of getting a gun is to protect them ,to hunt some foods , or to get more furs ,whatever it is . It must be very useful, so they traded.Anyway, the background of this picture is very beautiful. There are many totem poles and snow.I think it many be Canada.
It is a beautiful picture that is drawn by pencil.
The Fur Trade in North America began with the earliest contacts between the Iroquois and Europeans. That is also what this picture talks about.There are some Iroquois in this picture, they are holding some furs.There are also some Europeans are standing in front of them.It seems that they will have a fur trade.Something important is showed by this picture that i think is the Iroquois looks not very happy.Both the man and woman all looks very tired and hopeless.I do not think that they are happy to have this trade, but they have to.
The picture shows the setting of trading posts.There are some north American people in the picture.A native people gave his furs to a man .They are trading .The man 's wife and his child also are standing behind him.It seems that this trade is very important to their family, i think maybe trading fur is the only way that they use to get money or something can make their life better.There are also a man standing in the picture who is holding two gooses,he is also waiting for trading.There are something interesting is the man's child is not looking at the trading, he is looking at the animals.I think it shows the human nature--we love animals, we do love them, from our heart, from the inside, when we are young.When we grow up, we learned something that let us give up what we like, to use them to trade for a better life.We think more about ourselves, we begin to careless about other person's thought. We can use their life to trade our happiness!What a tragedy!
I found this picture from www.cartoonstock.com/directory/a/animal_skin.asp.
It is a comics, it should let people feel funny, feel relaxed,but i do not have the feeling like that.In fact ,i feel sad, very sad.This picture shows a story that happened in the zoo. There are a woman who is wearing a beautiful clothes that made by leopard skin.She is walking through the cage of leopards.All the leopards are bray.They looks angry and sad.It is also what i feel.It is an irony!What do you feel when you see your brother's skin is worn by others?!Is it not bad enough that kept by people in cages?!Is it not bad enough that played by people day by day until your died?!
We all be made by nature!We are family!what a tragedy!fur trade!
A very good entry.
ReplyDeleteI like the way you explain your pictures. It looks like you are really putting deep thought into your writing.
15/15 Excellent job!