IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1884 - 1947
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Bear River, N.S.
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Frank Meuse Jr
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 2000.4.71/ N-17,401
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
Printed on obverse: "Micmac Guide, Bear River, N.S." Note the canvas canoe, the woven woodsplint fishing creel, and the big catch of trout. Son of Chief James Meuse, William Meuse and his wife Rosie (1892 ca - 1937), had 10 children: John, Jim, Louis, Joseph, Frank, Oliver, Clarence, Bruce, Marguerite and Olive. 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
men; guides; fishing; fish; trout; canoes, canvas; paddles; tobacco pipes; woodsplint weaving; fishing creels; fishing rods; nets; Nova Scotia, Bear River; Meuse, William
