Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Tracing of a petroglyph reading "JJ. Ritchie June 6th 1836"
Petroglyph tracings I: Writing, hieroglyphics, etc #19a. 1 negative and 3 positives.
Date: 1888
Retrieval no.: George Creed Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 14 I19a
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?