Bibliography:

1. Pagé, Camille, La coutellerie depuis l'origine jusqu'à nos jours, 6 volumes, Réimpression par Laffitte Reprints, Marseille. A good source of info on French knives from the 17th and 18th century, regarding the dates and makers is an encyclopedia. It contains all the makers, dates and regions where the knifes where made.

2. Stone, Lyle M., Fort Michilimackinac, 1715-1781: An Archaeological
Perspective on the Revolutionary Frontier
, Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing,
1974.

3. Russell, Carl P., Firearms, Traps and Tools of the Mountain Men,  netLibrary Incorporated, 1977. *This book contains a few pages dedicated to French clasp knives and great info on French trade axe touchmarks.

4. Moussette, Marcel, Des couteaux pour la traite des fourrures,
Material History Review / Revue d'histoire de la culture matérielle, no. 51, printemps 2000, pp. 3-15.

5. Hulse, Charles, A., An archeological evaluation of Fort St.Joseph : An eighteenth century military post and settlement in Berrien county, Michigan, 1977

6. Quimby, George Irving, Indian culture and European trade goods, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1966.

7. Good, Mary Elizabeth, Guebert site: An 18th century, historic Kaskaskia Indian village (Randolph County, Illinois).

8. KALM, Pehr,  Voyage de Pehr Kalm au Canada en 1749, Montréal, Cercle du Livre de France, 1972.

9. Fougeroux de Bondaroy, L'art du coutelier, L'art du coutelier en ouvrages communs, vol. XVIII, 1772 ; Genève : Slatkins Reprints, 1984, p.2.

10. Landrin, H. C. (Henri C.). Manuel du coutelier; ou, Traite theorique et pratique de l'art de faire tous les ouvrages de coutellerie, Paris, Roret, 1835.

11. Brigitte, Liabeuf, Histoire de couteaux, Guide des collections du musée de la Coutellerie de Thiers.

12. Brown, James A., THE ZIMMERMAN SITE : A Report on Excavations at the Grand Village of Kaskaskia (Lasalle County, Illinois), 1961.

13. Cleland, Charles E., The Lasanen site, An historic burial locality in Mackinac county Michigan, Publications of the Museum Michigan State University

14. Bradley, James W., Evolution of the Onondaga Iroquois Accomodating change, 1500-1655, Syracuse University Press, 1987

15.  Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., INDIAN SOCIAL DYNAMICS IN THE PERIOD OF EUROPEAN CONTACT FLETCHER SITE CEMETERY, BAY COUNTY, MICHIGAN, Publications of the Museum Michigan State University

16. Doris K.Megill, Underwater finds in the French River, Ontario Department of lands and forests, Ottawa, August, 1964

17. Faulkner, Alaric, and Gretchen F. Faulkner. The French at Pentagoet, 1635-1674: An Archaeological Portrait of the Acadian Frontier, The New Brunswick Museum and The Maine Historic Preservation Commission, Augusta, 1987.

18.  Barbara, J. Wade, Study of the metal artifacts from Fort Gaspareaux, Parks Canada, 1975.

19. W. A. Kenyon, The History of James Bay 1610-1686, A study in historical Archaeology, Royal Ontario Museum.

20. Ronald J. Mason, Rock Island, Historical Indian Archaology in the Northern Lake Michigan Basin, Kent State University Press.

21. John Baldwin, Early knives & beaded sheaths of the American frontier, Early American Artistry-Trading Co.,1997.

22. John Walthall and Elizabeth D.Benchley, A Review of "The River L'Abbe Mission", Illinois Historic Preservation Agency,1988.

23.  C. Garrad, Iron Trade Knives on Historic Petun Sites, The Ontario Archaeological Society, 1969.

24. Beauchamp, William M., Metallic Implements of the New York Indians, New York State Museum Bulletin 55, 1902.

25. Louis H. Binford, Moreau S. Maxwell,  Excavation at Fort Michilimackinac, Mackinac City, Michigan, 1959 Season , cultural series, volume 1 number 1 1961.

26.  Jean Jacques Buigné, Le "QUI EST QUI " de l'arme en France - de 1350 à 1970", Editions du Portail.

27. Timothy J. Kent, "Ft Pontchartrain at Detroit, Volumes I & II", Silver Fox Enterprises, 2001.

28. LEVESQUE, René, Les vieux comptoirs de Sept-Îles, Leméac, Montréal, 1981, 188 p.
 

 

 

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