About the work

Location: Painted Rock Nature Reserve, Thunder Bay District. Northwestern Ontario, Canada
Notes: Pictured Lake is a small 32-acre lake with some of the most unique, detailed, and well-preserved pictographs in Northwestern Ontario. In 2008 the Thunder Bay Field Naturalists purchased 108 acres of land surrounding the lake, creating the Painted Rock Nature Reserve. The area is a unique biological site with mature forests, wetlands, and rare plants. The actual age of the pictographs is unknown, but they are thought to be hundreds of years old. These pictographs are featured on the cover of the book Indian Rock Paintings of the Great Lakes by Selwyn Dewdney and Kenneth Kidd. The pictographs at this site are of national significance.