Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Tracing of a petroglyph of unknown meaning
Petroglyph tracings M: Nondescript and unclassified #1. 6 negatives and 7 positives. Marion Robertson's Rock Drawings of the Micmac Indians draw attention to this petroglyph because of its use by "Father Maillard in 1740 in a document addressed by the Micmacs to British officials" and it's "similarity to the one on the Yarmouth stone."
Date: 1888
Retrieval no.: George Creed Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 15 M1
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