Nova Scotia Museum
Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection

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Date: 1931, 23 May

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Orignal Work:

Place: Indian Resedential School, Shubenacadie, NS

Ownership/Collection: Collection of Elsie Charles Basque

Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax

Reference Number: P113/ 2000.**.02/ N-23,975


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Three young girls wearing fancy white dresses, standing outside the Residential School. Dr. Basque writes, "We, older girls, were required to make our uniforms, brown woolen skirt and pillow ticking blouses. The only day we were allowed to dress up was on May procession Sunday." [Elsie Charles Basque to R.H. Whitehead, 6 November 1997.] Elsie Charles is on the left, Hazel Paul on the right. There are other unidentified girls in the background. On obverse: "1932.".

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girls; schools; Indian Residential School; Nova Scotia, Shubenacadie


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