Niniskamijinaqik : Ancestral images : the Mi'kmaq in art and photography / Ruth Holmes Whitehead.
Niniskamijinaqik : Ancestral images : the Mi'kmaq in art and photography / Ruth Holmes Whitehead.
By
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Whitehead, Ruth Holmes.
Publication Date
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2015
Publication Information
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Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus,
Physical Description
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123 p. : ill.
Subject Term
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Mi'kmaq art.
Indigenous peoples -- Canada.
First Nations -- Maritime Provinces -- History.
Geographic Term
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Mi'kmaq First Nation -- History.
Mi'Kmaq First Nation -- Portraits.
Series
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IMAGES OF OUR PAST (NIMBUS PUBLISHING)
IMAGES OF OUR PAST.
Summary
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The Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada -- their unique culture and way of life presented through the remarkable and sometime complex lives of individuals, as depicted in artwork or photography. The opening images in this collection were created by the Mi’kmaq themselves: portrayals of human beings carved into the rock formations of Nova Scotia. Then there are the earliest surviving European depictions of Mi'kmaq, decorations on the maps of Samuel de Champlain. Finally we see portraits of Mi'kmaw individuals, ancestors in whom we see their "humanity frozen in the stillness of a photograph," as the writers of the book's foreword describe. Includes 94 compelling pieces of art and photography, chosen from more than a thousand extant portraits in different media, that show the Mi'kmaw people. Each image is an entry point to deeply personal history, a small moment or single person transformed into vivid immediacy for the reader.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781771082631
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Gander (GGR) | Adult NFic Indigenous | Adult Non-Fiction Indigenous | 971.5004 W58 | Checked In |
Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.5004 W58 | Checked In |
Labrador City (LLC) M. Butt | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.5004 W58 | Checked In |
Mount Pearl (AMP) R. King | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.5004 W58 | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 971.5004 W58 | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic NL Ref - NL Rm | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - NL Room | 971.5004 W58 | NonCirculating |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic NL Ref - Vault | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - Vault | 971.5004 W58 | NonCirculating |