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-9685/ #8
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IMAGE INFORMATION
Mi'kmaq actor Anthony Morris lighting his tobacco pipe, using a hot coal carried inside a clamshell full of punk. He is playing a scene where his character offers tobacco smoke as a gesture of respect to a dead bear he has caught in a deadfall trap. 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 August of 1980, during the taping of what became the Wedding Episode.
KEYWORDS
men; costumes, 15th century, reproductions of; painting, on leather; Morris, Anthony; animals; bears; trapping; deadfall traps; fire-making; pipes, tobacco; rituals; videos; actors, Mi'kmaq; MI'KMAQ TV Series; Clam Harbour; Nova Scotia