IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1980
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Shubenacadie Game Park, N.S.
Ownership/Collection: Nova Scotia Department of Education, Halifax
Source: Learning Resources & Technology
Reference Number: N-9232; Contact Sheet
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IMAGE INFORMATION
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. These shots were taken during pre-production taping of a moose-butchering sequence in March 1980, on the occasion of the Department of Lands and Forests finding a dead moose and presenting it to the project. An experiment was videotaped, in which Dr. Robson Bonnichsen of the Center for the Study of the First Americans in Orono, Maine (now in Corvallis, Oregon), assisted by Dr. Harold McGee Jr. of St. Mary's University, and R. H. Whitehead of the Nova Scotia Museum, butchered a moose, using stone tools Dr. Bonnichsen had replicated. At the same time, Mi'kmaq actress Sarah Denny and Audrey Morris, the non-Mi'kmaq wife of Mi'kmaq actor Anthony Morris, were taped butchering the same moose. Audrey Morris does not appear in the actual series as it was discovered she could not speak Mi'kmaq and was not herself Mi'kmaq; hence this moose-butchering footage was never incorporated in the Winter Episode as previously planned.
KEYWORDS
women; costumes, 15th century, reproductions of; painting, on leather; videos; actors, Mi'kmaq; MI'KMAQ TV Series; lithics; Bonnichsen, Robson; Whitehead, Ruth Holmes; McGee, Harold F., Jr.; Morris, Audrey; Denny, Sarah; animals; moose; butchering; tools, stone; CBC Halifax; Vandekieft, Rob; Shubenacadie Game Park; Nova Scotia
