Nova Scotia Museum
Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection

IMAGE CITATION


Date: 1940-1950

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Place: Nova Scotia

Ownership/Collection: Collection of Allen Pictou

Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax

Reference Number: P113/ 2000.4.14/ N-18,421


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IMAGE INFORMATION


Sam Pictou was born in 1897, at Lequille, NS, son of Madeline and Chief Ben Pictou. He fought in World War II, serving in France and Germany for three and a half years with the Canadian Army. After the war ended, he worked in sawmills in Lequille, hunted, fished, cut cordwood and made baskets. He also worked in coke ovens in Cape Breton. He was married to Julie Christmas Pictou, of Cape Breton Island. One of 116 images collected for copying by Darlene Ricker between 1990 and 1997, as part of a project of the Bear River Mi'kmaq Reserve, Bear River, NS. Initiated by Chief Frank Meuse, the project, set up to preserve the reserve's history, resulted in a book by Darlene Ricker, 1997. The Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, contributed the copywork for all photographs lent to the project, on the understanding that they would keep the copy negatives, but return the originals and provide the lenders with 8x10 prints of each item loaned for copying.

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