IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1930
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Annapolis Royal, NS
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Viola Peters Hamilton
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 2000.4.79/ N-17,701702
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
Leo Peters is asleep in his father's lap. The feather headdress is not traditional, it is worn simply as a stereotyped "Indian Costume" for the Indian Carnival. Lewis Peters was chief at Bear River for 21 years. Viola Peters Hamilton, his daughter, has documents stating he was chief in 1938. Bazil (in 1991) "owns the craft stores on the highway outside Truro." Lewis Peters was born 27 November 1882, and died 5 June 1963. 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; boys; infants; Peters, Lewis; Peters, Bazil; Peters, Leo; Nova Scotia, Annapolis Royal; carnivals; festivals; Indian Carnival; headdresses, feather
