IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1910
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Bear River, N.S
Ownership/Collection: Alexander Leighton Collection
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ N-6685
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
According to the photographer, left to right are Mrs. Mary Toney, Annapolis; Glyd Meuse; Chief James Meuse, who died April 1912; Mrs. Madeline Paul with a child; Fanny (Mrs. Noel) Pictou. In 1917, however, Jerry Lonecloud, a Mi'kmaq picker for the Nova Scotia Museum, sold a second copy of this photograph (17.42/4571, now missing) to the museum. He dated it as 1907. In the accession records, the subjects are identified as (L-R): Magdalene Bunch, Glyd Meuse and her husband Jim [Chief James Meuse], Mary Michael with child, and Magdalene Toney, all of Bear River. Notice the baskets, the snowshoe, the rustic chair. The peaked cap is traditional, the other feathered headdresses worn by these women are not.
KEYWORDS
men; children; women; basketry, woodsplint; caps, women's; peaked caps; headdresses, feather; transportation; snowshoes; wigwams; chiefs; Meuse, James, Chief; Paul, Madeline; Pictou, Fanny; Pictou, Noel, wife of; Toney, Mary; Meuse, Glyd [sic]; Meuse, James, wife of; Bunch, Madeleine; Michael, Mary; Toney, Madeleine; furniture, rustic, Mi'kmaq; St. Anne's Day; Bear River; Nova Scotia
