Nova Scotia Archives

Mi'kmaw Community Gatherings

"North American Indians, representing a small remnant still living in Nova Scotia"

[Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection, NSM: The women are not identified but the one at left wears a skirt known to have been made for Marie Antoinette Thomas; it is now in the collections of the Nova Scotia Museum.]

Date: ca. 1856

Photographer: anonymous

Reference: F. W. Johnson Nova Scotia Archives Gift 226, no. 15, picture 197 / negative 5488

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