Harry Piers: Museum Maker

Notes from Piers Accession Book: Photograph (picture post-card) of "Doctor" Jeremiah Lone-cloud, alias Jeremiah Bartlett, alias Jeremiah Luxey, Micmac name Ha-sel[]-ma, 1852-1930, of about 50% Micmac Indian stock and 50% French stock; showing him as a young man of about 34 years, full-length, in a western Indian costume, when he was with a "Wild West" show of Healey and Biglow, at Madison Square Garden, New York, U.S.A., about 50 years ago, say about 1886. (He was married 46 years ago, i.e. about 1890, and the photograph was taken about 4 or 5 years before that). It was in this "show" that he took the name Lone Cloud, which he used after that. He was with Healey and Biglow for a good many years, and did feats of marksmanship with a rifle, etc. He was a Nova Scotia Micmac who happened to have been born at Belfast, Maine, U.S.A., 4 July, 1852, and who died at Halifax, April, 1930.

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Date Accessioned: 11 April 1936

Reference: Harry Piers number 8417  Nova Scotia Archives Photograph Collection Mi'kmaq: Lonecloud, Jeremiah and Family /  negative: N-10644, N-6151