Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Whitehead, Ruth Holmes
Elitekey : Micmac material culture from 1600 A.D. to the present / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; photos. by Ron Merrick. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1980. 84 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 E43
Mi'kmaq — Material culture
Mi'kmaq — Art.
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Inventory of Micmac, Maliseet and Beothuk material culture in international collections : Great Britain / Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1988. 101 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AM1 N935 C975 #62
Micmac, Maliseet, Beothuk collections in Great Britain.
Mi'kmaq — Antiquities
Malecite Indians — Antiquities
Beothuk Indians — Antiquities
Museums — Great Britain — Catalogs
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — Antiquities.
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Micmac quillwork : Micmac Indian techniques of porcupine quill decoration, 1600-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; with an appendix on quilled-bark conservation, by Deborah Jewett. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1982. 230 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W592
Indian craft
Mi'kmaq — Art — History
Mi'kmaq — Industries — History
Indian art — North America — History
First Nations of North America — Industries — History.
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Micmac, Maliseet and Beothuk collections in Europe and the Pacific / by Ruth Holmes-Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1989. 1 v. : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AM1 N935 C975 #66
Mi'kmaq — Antiquities
Malecite Indians — Antiquities
Beothuk Indians — Antiquities
Museums — Europe — Catalogs.
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Nova Scotia : the protohistoric period 1500-1630 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1993. iii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AM1 N935 C975 #75
Four Micmac sites, Oak Island: B1Cu-2,3, Northport: BlCx-1, Pictou: BkCp-1, Avonport: BgDb-6.
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Plant fibre textiles from the Hopps site: BKCp-1 Halifax, Nova Scotia Museum, 1987. 77 pages, illus.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - SB241 W592 T355
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Six Micmac stories / retold by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; illustrated by Harold McGee. Halifax : Published by the Nova Scotia Museum as part of the Education Resource Services Program of the Dept. of Education of the Province of Nova Scotia, 1989. 51 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.341 #35 - Vertical File
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Mi'kmaq — Legends — Juvenile literature.
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Stories from the Six Worlds : Micmac legends / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; illustrated by Kathy Kaulbach. Halifax : Nimbus, 1988. 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W551 1988
Mi'kmaq — Legends
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Legends
Tales — Maritime Provinces.
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The Black Loyalists : Southern Settlers of the First Free Black Communities in Nova Scotia / Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 2013. xiv, 240 pages, 16 pagaes of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2321.4 W592 2013 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Black loyalists — Nova Scotia — History
Black loyalists — Nova Scotia — Biography
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The Book of Negroes: edited from the British version, with variations from the American copy and the Black Loyalist drectory / Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : R. Whitehead, 2008-. 1 v.: facsims.; 30 cm. +1 CD-ROM.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E277 W592 2008
African american loyalists — Directories
African americans — Genealogy.
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The life of Boston King : Black loyalist, minister and master carpenter / Boston King ; edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Carmelita A.M. Robertson. Halifax : Nimbus Pub. and the Nova Scotia Museum, 2003. 60 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E444 K45 2002
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes
Robertson, Carmelita.
Slaves — Biography. — United States
Black loyalists — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Methodist Church — Clergy — Biography.
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The Micmac : how their ancestors lived five hundred years ago / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Harold McGee ; illustrations by Kathy Kaulbach. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1983. 60 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 x 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W54
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces.
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The Micmac ethnology collection of the Nova Scotia Museum / by Ruth Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1974. 58 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 N935
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The old man told us : excerpts from Micmac history, 1500-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; foreword by Peter Christmas. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 385 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W55 1991
Includes index.
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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The Shelburne Black loyalists : a short biography of all Blacks emigrating to Shelburne County, Nova Scotia after the American revolution 1783 / an edited transcription by Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 2000. 294 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AM1 N935 C975 #94
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Tourism and Culture
Nova Scotia Museum.
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
Blacks — Nova Scotia Biography
Afro-American loyalists — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Blacks
Shelburne (N.S. : Co
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Tracking Doctor Lonecloud : showman to legend keeper / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; including the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud reconstructed and annotated by Ruth Holmes Whitehead from interview notes by Clara Dennis. Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions, 2002. 183 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W474 2002
Co-published by: Nova Scotia Museum.
Dennis, Clara, 1881-1954
Lonecloud, Jerry, 1854-1930.
Mi'kmaq — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Entertainers — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Folklore.
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