Nova Scotia Museum
Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection

IMAGE CITATION


Date: 1944

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Place: Atlantic City, New Jersey

Ownership/Collection: Collection of Viola Peters Hamilton

Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax

Reference Number: P113/ 2000.4.72/ N-17,399


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IMAGE INFORMATION


Viola Peters was married three times, to a Paul, a Halliday, and a Hamilton. Here she and her brother Hank Peters perform log birling in a pool, at the 1944 Sportsman Show in Atlantic City, NJ. Note the two canvas canoes in the background, with "DAVE IRWIN" painted on the sides. 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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women; men; Peters, Hank; Paul, Viola Peters; sportsmen; shows; Sportsman Show; New Jersey, Atlantic City; log birling; bathing suits, women's; canoes, canvas


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