This is a watercolor painting by Philip John Bainbrigge of members of the Horican nation canoeing on Lake George, the lake known to the Hodenosaunee as An-di-a-ta-roc-te. The painting is dated to 1838.

Bainbrigge uses the name "Horican" for the nation. Horican is probably better known as the name James Fenimore Cooper gave to what is now called Lake George, in his novel "The Last of the Mohicans." The Iroquois name for the lake was An-di-a-ta-roc-te, the place where the lake contracts.

Le Lac du Sant Sacrament, the "Lake of the Blessed Sacrament," was the name given to the lake by the Jesuit Father Jogues, in 1646.

The Horicans were in fact an Indigenous nation from the center of what became New England, but Fenimore Cooper liked the name and used it for the name of the lake in his novel.

-It seems that Bainbrigge was using the word Horican correctly, and that the people he depicted were of that nation.

Source: "The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper's Historical Inventions, and his Cave" by James Austin Holden

(University of the State of New York)*

Paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the New York State Historical Association, October 3-5, 1916, Cooperstown, New York.

Published in Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association, Vol. XVI (1917), pp. 212-255.

LAC record and "The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper's Historical Inventions, and his Cave" by James Austin Holden
(University of the State of New York)*
Paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the New York State Historical Association, October 3-5, 1916, Cooperstown, New York.

Lake George, or An-di-a-ta-roc-te in its Iroquois name, is in northern New York State, part of the Southern Great Lakes region.