Nova Scotia Museum
Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection

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Date: 1933 ca

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Place: Dartmouth, N.S.

Ownership/Collection: William Dennis Collection

Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax

Reference Number: P113/ 73.180.690/ N-14,810


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Leonard Paul is wearing a coat and headdress which belonged to Chief Peter Wilmot, who died in 1932. The outfit was sold by Wilmot's daughter-in-law Charlotte to the Nova Scotia Museum in 1933. Whether Paul borrowed it from the museum for the photograph, or from the Wilmot family, is not known. The museum's curator, Harry Piers, is known to have lent costumes during this period to Mi'kmaq who wanted to be photographed. The coat is dated to 1885, and described as being of dark blue serge, piped and trimmed with scarlet blanketing. It was made by Wilmot's daughter Charlotte (not his daughter-in-law Charlotte), born about 1863; she re-used older beadwork panels from another coat of her father's. [Nova Scotia Museum Accession Book V:5, Accession No. 7685.]

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men; hunting; moose-calls; Paul, Leonard; coats; headdresses, feather; Dartmouth; Nova Scotia


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