Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Tracing of a petroglyph of a human figure floating above a house
Petroglyph tracings E: Human Figures #. 5 negatives and 1 positive. May be interpreted to represent the Mi'kmaq belief of the spirit leaving the body of the deceased through the smoke hole of the wigwam. Possible interpretation of petroglyph from Rock Drawings of the Micmac Indians.
Date: 1888
Retrieval no.: George Creed Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 12 E31
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