IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1837
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Nova Scotia
Source: Library and Archives Canada
Reference Number: C-30966
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IMAGE INFORMATION
The artist served in Canada 1834-1838, as an Ensign in the 85th Regiment. He kept a diary from 27 December 1837 to 11 February 1838, during a march of the regiment from New Brunswick to Québec. Three of his sketches, of the fourteen found with this diary, are dated 1837, and many were done in Nova Scotia, apparently on a moose-hunting trip. Jack Glode, the Mi'kmaq hunter shown here, is wearing a cap with side flaps turned up and appears to be blind in one eye, with an eye-patch. This is the oldest known Mi'kmaq portrait where the subject is identified by name. In pencil on the reverse is "Jack Glode/A sketch from nature of an Indian chief/ October 1837." In October, according to other sketches in the same diary, Butler was traveling on the Liverpool Road, running from Annapolis Royal to Liverpool, N.S.
KEYWORDS
men; chiefs; Glode, Jack; caps, men's; hunting; guiding; Nova Scotia
