Nova Scotia Museum
Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection

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Date: 1932, May

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Orignal Work:

Place: Indian Residential School, Shubenacadie, NS

Ownership/Collection: Collection of Elsie Charles Basque

Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax

Reference Number: P113/ 2000.**.07/N-23,965


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Three young girls wearing fancy white dress, standing outside the Residential School. In front are Agatha Francis (on left) and Kate Francis, holding a basket decorated with white ribbon and white paper flowers. The young girl at rear is unidentified. 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.] On obverse in ink: "1932." The photographer, Elsie Charles, later Mrs. Isaac Basque, was a student at the Residential School in the early 1930s.

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girls; schools; Indian Residential School; Nova Scotia, Shubenacadie; Francis, Agatha; Francis, Kate


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