IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1980-1983 ca
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Middleton, N.S.
Ownership/Collection: Annapolis Valley Macdonald Museum, Middleton
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 82.84.10
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
Part of a series of 25 or more photographs taken at the museum in Middleton in the early 1980s, showing an unknown Mi'kmaq man showing how to prepare woodsplints for basket-weaving. Captions on the photographs are by Joleen Gordon, Research Associate at the Nova Scotia Museum. The caption reads in full:
Trimming the ash to insure the piece is squared-off and that the growth lines are even and parallel. Trimming the piece of ash, stick or billet, is most important. The object is to have all the growth rings, or strips, separate evenly both in width and thickness. The wooden set-up must be the worker's own invention so he can work comfortably at a certain height.
KEYWORDS
men; basketry, woodsplint, construction of; woodsplints, preparation of; knives, draw; Middleton; Nova Scotia
