Nova Scotia Museum
Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection

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Date: n.d.; 1700-1755 (?)

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Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax

Reference Number: P113/ 27.68 (6055)/ N-12,703


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This medal was dug up about 1877 on François Noel's Island [now Francis Nose Island], Halifax County, N.S., on the site of an old eighteenth-century French cemetery at the neck at the east end of the island, near Musquodoboit Harbour. According to Jeremiah Bartlett Alexis, the Mi'kmaq who sold it to the museum, the Mi'kmaq of the district were buried at this chapel. The medal is thought to be French and to have been made for the Indian trade. It was uncovered by John Baker of East Jeddore. The accession book lists it as measuring 1.26 to 1.28 inches in diameter. [Nova Scotia Museum Accession Book III, No. 6055, p. 123.]

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medals; men; headdresses, feather; weapons; axes, stone


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