Early Lacrosse Paintings

[James Laverance]

Lacrosse is considered to be the oldest hockey-related game in the world first played by the Cherokee in the Southeast back in 1100ad.

*Lacrosse played on Ice by the Sioux*in*South Dakota (Now Minnesota) in 1848

Image of an Ice lacrosse game in Connecticut from 1859.

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[WildGopher]

Lacrosse is considered to be the oldest hockey-related game in the world first played by the Cherokee in the Southeast back in 1100ad.
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Great find. Those images bring a part of that history and culture to life for us 150 or so years later, and shows the universal appeal of these kind of games. Thanks for posting.

 

[James Laverance]

• Antique Hockey Woodcut Print - by “Master Michel Angelo” (a pseudonym for Richard Johnson)​

• Juvenile Sports and Pastimes
  Published by Thomas Carnan, at Number 65, in St. Paul's Church-yard, London, Second Edition 1776​

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• JUEGO DE CHUECA - PLAYED BY MAPUCHE INDIANS - 1854
  
  
  

• An early painting of a lacrosse game.

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[Killion]

Wow! Some seriously beautiful old paintings & lithotypes etc. Very nice indeed. Of particular interest, Lacrosse on ice... got to figure they'd have used bone or antler blades pre-contact & contemporaneously through contact at various times.