IMAGE CITATION
Date: 1930 - 1939
Subject:
Orignal Work:
Place: Annapolis Royal, NS
Ownership/Collection: Collection of Viola Peters Hamilton
Source: Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax
Reference Number: P113/ 2000.4.74/ N-17,403
Image Use: Free for personal research and non-commercial educational use.
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IMAGE INFORMATION
There are thirty-four people in this photo. In front row, left to right: two unknown boys wearing feather headdresses, John McEwan, also wearing a feather headdress; Dela (Della?) McDonald; Mary Peters; Leo Peters (very small boy); Bazil Peters; Mary Ellen or Mabel Lewis; Doris Peters; and in the extreme right foreground, an unidentified man, wearing a feather headdress and carrying a fake stone axe. Center row, kneeling, just past Richard McEwan's headdress feathers, is Lila Peters; then Rita Toney, who married a Smith; Mary Toney, who married a McDonald; Viola Peters; Kathleen Peters; and Annie Lewis. Standing at back, from left: unknown woman with hair in braid; Fannie Meuse, with hair unbraided; three unidentified women; unidentified (white?) man, facing left; Sarah Harlow, with short hair; Joe Peters; Freeman Peters; Henry Peters; Christine Brooks; James Meuse; unidentified man with top of his head cut off in the shot; Rachel Pictou, wearing a beaded headband; Rosie Meuse, wearing a peaked cap. Behind Rachel and Rosie are two unidentified men. There is another unidentified man at lower right, wearing a feather headdress - his face is about all that is shown. Viola Peters Hamilton, owner of the original photo, was married three times, to a Paul, a Halliday, and a Hamilton. 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
women; men; "Indian Festival"; festivals; Nova Scotia, Annapolis Royal; "Indian costumes"; McEwan, John; McDonald, Dela; Peters, Mary; Peters, Leo; Peters, Basil; Lewis, Mary Ellen; Lewis, Mabel; Peters, Doris; Peters, Lila; Toney, Rita; Toney, Mary; Peters, Viola; Peters, Kathleen; Lewis, Annie; Meuse, Fannie; Harlow, Sarah; Peters, Joe; Peters, Freeman; Peters, Henry; Brooks, Christine; Meuse, James; Pictou, Rachel; Gloade, Rosie
