Algonquin, Chris Drury

Publisher - East Port. Editor – Kay Syrad, Design – Chris Drury and Peter Foolen,
Printed by – Van den Eynde, Belgium
Signed edition of 500 Available April 2008 £15 + PP

This is a small hand sewn, 20 page book made from a canoeing trip in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario in August 2003. Before going I had read the following statement:

The Algonquin group of languages is thought to be eleven thousand years old. It is spoken by tribes in an area which encompasses North Dakota through to Michigan and up through Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. Around 2000 BC a written language evolved which had its beginnings as bite marks on bark.’

 I experimented to find out how you could make bite marks on Birch bark and found that if you fold the bark, bite it and then unfold, you create a line, which must have formed the basis of a cuneiform writing. For each of the seven days I collected one piece of Birch bark and kept a diary of things seen, heard, experienced and sensed. The result is this small publication

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