IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1940
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Woodstock, N.B.
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Richard Dyer
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 1998.8.2
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
In felt-tip on reverse: "My mother/ Mary Eleanor Phillips/ Born 1/31/28/ Daughter of Andrew M. Phillips and Mary Cecelia Devoe." One of a series of eight (1998.8.1-8) donated to the Nova Scotia Museum by Richard Dyer, son of Mary Eleanor Phillips. Andrew Phillips came from Bear River, NS, and Mary Cecelia Devoe, a Maliseet woman, from Woodstock, NB. In the photo, Mary Eleanor is dressed in "Indian Costume", wearing a blanket robe, with her hair in braids and a large headband. Many First Nations persons wore such Indian-stereotype costumes when selling crafts to tourists, or in historical pageants.
KEYWORDS
"Indian costumes"; girls; New Brunswick, Woodstock?; Maine?
