First Nations History

First Nations peoples and their Cultural History in Maps, Prints and Original Artworks

This collection brings together original antique maps, prints &artworks that provide insight into Indigenous presence, cultural history and early European representations of peoples and landscapes. These works reveal how geography, territory and culture were interpreted and recorded through historical cartography and illustration.

Included are maps and prints that reference Indigenous place names, settlements, trade routes and cultural regions, as well as ethnographic imagery produced within broader exploration and colonial contexts. While created through European perspectives, these materials remain important historical documents for understanding representation and cultural interaction.

Items in this collection are valued for their historical complexity, documentary significance and contribution to broader narratives of exploration, contact and cultural history.