IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1940-1949
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Nova Scotia; possibly Bear River or Annapolis Royal
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Evangeline Francis Pictou and Irene Sexton
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 2000.4.31/ N-18,087
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
Twelve adults and four children, outside on the grass. The Mi'kmaq man on the far left is wearing a woman's beaded dress! The identified persons are John McEwan, at front right, holding a gun and blowing a birchbark moose-call. Seated, center front, in a striped blouse, is Mary Agnes Pictou. Standing, second from right, is Selvie Pictou and third from right is his wife Rachel. The non-native woman, standing at left is named Ethel, surname unknown, next to her is a non-native woman named Isabel McDonald. This is perhaps the Bear River Cherry Blossom Days festivities or the Indian Carnival. 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; women; Nova Scotia; weapons; guns; muskets; moose-calls; headdresses; music; violins; fiddles; celebrations; Cherry Blossom Days?; Indian Carnival?
