Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Tracing of a petroglyph of a human figure smoking a pipe and Mi'kmaq heiroglyphics next to a date
Petroglyph tracings E: Human Figures #26. 2 negatives. Note: The images shown are negatives which means the heiroglyphs and date are reversed. See MG 15 Vol. 12 D12 for very similar writings.
Date: 1888
Retrieval no.: George Creed Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 12 E26
Questions to Consider
- When do you think the document was written?
- Who do you think wrote the document?
- Why do you think the document was written
- Who do you think received the document?
- Who do you think this document was written for?
- What information do you think this document provides? What do you think it tells us about the past?
- How do you think the document reflects the attitudes and values of the time period in which it was written?
- What impact do you think the document had at the time it was written?
- Do you think those were different impacts for different people?