Nova Scotia Archives
Mi'kmaw Teaching and Learning Resources
Tracing of a petroglyph that conveys a message
Petroglyph tracings M: Nondescript and unclassified #20. 5 negatives and 6 positives. Marion Robertson's Rock Drawings of the Micmac Indians interpret this petroglyph "from records of the Abnaki Indians [as a message that] means 'I am goung fishing to the westward (a fish and the sticks in the ground pointing to the west). I shall be gone two days (two sticks standing across those stuck in the ground)'."
Date: 1888
Retrieval no.: George Creed Nova Scotia Archives MG 15 volume 15 M20
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