IMAGE CITATION

Date: 1894 ca

Subject:

Orignal Work:

Place: Lennox Island?, P.E.I.

Ownership/Collection: Heritage Foundation of P.E.I. Collection, Mitchell Neg. #4

Source: Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Records Office, Charlottetown

Reference Number: 3466/72.66.1.13

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IMAGE INFORMATION

This woman is a basketmaker. She sits on an old lobster trap, with a tobacco pipe in her lap. A beautifully made Mi'kmaq toboggan leans against the wigwam in the background of this picture.

KEYWORDS

women; housing; toboggans; traps, lobster; lobster traps; barrels; paddles; wigwams; basketry, woodsplint; Lennox Island; Prince Edward Island

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