Nova Scotia Museum
Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection

IMAGE CITATION


Date: 1880-1890 ca

Subject:

Orignal Work:

Place: Charlottetown, P.E.I.

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

Reference Number: 3109/ 225


Please contact Prince Edward Island Public Archives and Records Office, Charlottetown for use of this image.

IMAGE INFORMATION


This light-haired, blue-eyed Mi'kmaq woman is posed with a wooden doll in her lap, a circular sweetgrass-and-woodsplint fan, two rib baskets, and a birchbark canoe model with quillwork decoration. The studio is identified by the wooden panelling in the background, compared to that in the photograph immediately following.

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women; basketry, woodsplint; fans; models, canoe; transportation; canoes; pipes, tobacco; basketry, rib; quillwork, porcupine; dolls; toys; Charlottetown; Prince Edward Island


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