IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1940-1949
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: General's Bridge, Lequille, NS
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Evangeline Francis Pictou and Irene Sexton
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 2000.4.30/ N-18,086
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
Chief Pictou in front of his house at Lequille, seated in a chair, holding a wooden "war club", and wearing a beaded coat. Standing behind him are three women and a man. A note from Darlene Ricker reads, "Vangie Pictou identifies the woman second from right as Lucy Pictou and her husband Ben Pictou Junior. Lena Pictou says that the woman are (left to right): Liza Paul, Mrs. Pennal [Christina Penall], and either Rosie Paul or Sarah Fossey (all daughters of Chief Ben Pictou); the man on the right is Abram Paul, Lena's grandfather. The boy is Freeman Pictou." [Fossey is also spelled Faucey and Forcey in this collection.] 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.
KEYWORDS
men; chiefs; Pictou, Benjamin; Nova Scotia, Lequille, General's Bridge; war clubs; wood carving; beadwork; Pictou, Freeman; Pictou, Ben Jr.; Pictou, Abram; Penall, Christine; Fossey, Sarah; Paul, Rosie; Paul, Eliza; Pictou, Lucy; Pictou, Ben Jr.
