IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1980
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Clam Harbour, N.S.
Ownership/Collection: Nova Scotia Department of Education, Halifax
Source: Learning Resources & Technology
Reference Number: N-9688/ #8
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IMAGE INFORMATION
R. H. Whitehead (on right) shows Mi'kmaq actress Sarah Denny how to mix red ochre, a traditional pigment, with egg yolk. This will then be used in an upcoming scene, where she will paint the image of a bear on the family's birchbark wigwam. At the request of the Micmac Association for Cultural Studies, during the course of 1980-1981, the Nova Scotia Museum, Learning Resources & Technology, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Halifax, produced MI'KMAQ, a television series on Mi'kmaq life circa 1400 A.D. Taken in June of 1980, during the taping of the Spring Episode of MI'KMAQ. This day in spring was later cut into two parts, and the second became the Summer Episode.
KEYWORDS
women; costumes, 15th century, reproductions of; painting, on leather; Denny, Sarah; Whitehead, Ruth Holmes; ochre, red; red ochre; painting, on birchbark; videos; actors, Mi'kmaq; MI'KMAQ TV Series; Clam Harbour; Nova Scotia
