IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1970 - 1980
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Lequille, NS
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Violet Harlow
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 2000.4.117/ N-17,472
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
Fannie Meuse is seated on a cot, the mattress covered with an old army blanket. She is wearing a pants suit and running shoes, and drinking from a cup. There is a hospital ID bracelet on her left wrist, and bad bruises on her arm. Information collected by Darlene Ricker reads, "Fannie used to live at Bridgewater, but moved to Lequille during her later years. At Bridgewater, she got her drinking water from a ditch near her shack. She smoked a pipe, chewed tobacco, and at one time was a bouncer in Annapolis Royal. She lived past the age of 90, and died a few years ago. She was known as a talker and a character. [Darlene Ricker to R.H. Whitehead, 19 April 1991.] 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
Nova Scotia, Lequille; women; Meuse, Fannie
