Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Tracing of a petroglyph of a hand with cross-hatched palm
Petroglyph tracings K: Parts of human figure #2. 3 negatives and 2 positives. Marion Robertson's Rock Drawings of the Micmac Indians interpret this petroglyph as "Hands…a five-pointed star and a coild fiddlehead on the thumb… Among some Algonkin tribes the spiral fiddlehead was a symbol for a medicinal plant and may have been used on this hand to identify a person skilled in healing."
Date: 1888
Retrieval no.: George Creed Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 14 K2
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