Nova Scotia Museum
Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection

IMAGE CITATION


Date: 1894 ca

Subject:

Orignal Work:

Place: Lennox Island?, P.E.I.

Ownership/Collection: Heritage Foundation of P.E.I. Collection, Mitchell Neg. #8

Source: Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Records Office, Charlottetown

Reference Number: 3466/72.66.1.15


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IMAGE INFORMATION


This family is busy making woodsplint baskets for sale. The ash logs are to be pounded into splints, using the blunt end of the man's axe; several baskets are already in the process of being woven. Note the boot on a pole at upper left.

KEYWORDS


men; women; tools; axes; spectacles; shoes, boots; basketry, woodsplint; construction of; ash logs; Lennox Island; Prince Edward Island


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