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/ 82.84.11
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:
Beginning to pound the ash stick with the blunt side of an axe. The stick is laid on a flat surface and pounded along one length, overlapping each hit. The direction of pounding is at right-angles, or perpendicular, to the plane of the growth rings. The stick is then turned over and pounding repeated along the length of the stick. This may be done several times.
KEYWORDS
men; basketry, woodsplint, construction of; woodsplints, preparation of; tools; axes; Middleton; Nova Scotia
