Mazinaw Lake Pictographs. October 2022.

This video of Mazinaw rock is part of a larger series of videos that I am doing to document my paddling of the Mississippi River in Eastern Ontario from its source at Mackavoy lake to the Ottawa River. Mazinaw Rock has many stories to tell, including those of the Indigenous pictographs carefully painted on the rock from 300 to 1000 years ago.
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Bon Echo Provincial Park
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The Old Walt inscription that was carved into the face of the cliff in 1920 was done to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth in 1819.
Arthur Lismer was one of the legendary Group of Seven painters who spent time at the Bon Echo Inn in the early 1920s. He made Turtle Rock the subject of a painting entitled “Sheep’s Nose. Bon Echo. 1922”. It was purchased in 2010 for $ 1.2 million by the Vancouver Art Gallery and now hangs with the other Lismers in its collection.
The unofficial mascot of Bon Echo Park is the Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero, Nanabozho, who is among the over 260 pictographs found in the area.
Many of these pictographs depict the trickster god Nanabush, a mythological hero belonging to the Ojibwe tribe.
Nanabozho , also known as Nanabush, is a spirit In Anishinaabe aadizookaan (traditional storytelling), particularly among the Ojibwe. Nanabozho figures prominently in their storytelling, including the story of the world's creation. Nanabozho is the Ojibwe trickster figure and culture hero (these two archetypes are often combined into a single figure in First Nations mythologies, among others).
Nanabozho can take the shape of male or female animals or humans in storytelling. Most commonly they are an animal such as a raven or coyote which lives near the tribe and which are cunning enough to make capture difficult.
Nanabozho is a trickster figure in many First Nation storytellings.[2] While the use of Nanabush through storytelling can be for entertainment, it is often used as a way to pass down information and general life lessons.[3]
Standing 92 m (300 feet) above Mazinaw Lake, Mazinaw Rock is a spectacle that commands the attention of visitors both on land and on water.
A convenient way for park visitors to get an up-close look at Mazinaw Rock is Bon Echo’s 45-minute interpretive tour, nicknamed The Wanderer Tour. Link is shown below.
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