Camping
- 1931
- Digital pigment print from original Bert Call negative
- Print Size 30 X 22 in / 76.2 x 55.9 cm
- Frame Size 37 X 30 in / 94.0 x 76.2 cm
“The Indian reminding us that he could not work without eating, we stopped to breakfast on the main shore, southwest of Deer Island, at a spot where the Mimulus ringens grew abundantly. We took out our bags, and the Indian made a fire under a very large bleached log, using white-pine bark from a stump, though he said that hemlock was better, and kindling with canoe-birch bark. Our table was a large piece of freshly peeled birch-bark, laid wrong-side-up, and our breakfast consisted of hard bread, fried pork, and strong coffee, well sweetened, in which we did not miss the milk.”
—Henry David Thoreau, “1857 Allegash and East Branch”, The Maine Woods