Nova Scotia Archives
George Creed - Mi'kmaq Petroglyphs
Tracing of a petroglyph of a hand with cross-hatched palm
Date: 1888
Petroglyph tracings K: Parts of human figure #2. 3 negatives and 2 positives. Marion Robertson's Rock Drawings of the Micmac Indians interpret this petroglyph as "Hands…a five-pointed star and a coild fiddlehead on the thumb… Among some Algonkin tribes the spiral fiddlehead was a symbol for a medicinal plant and may have been used on this hand to identify a person skilled in healing."
Reference: George Creed - Petroglyphs Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 Vol. 14 K2