A modern, more ethnographically accurate 1920 update of an earlier 1796 rendition of the hunting, fishing, and gathering tools of Acadians, or what could have been the Mi’kmaq people.
A modern, more ethnographically accurate 1920 update of an earlier 1796 rendition of the hunting, fishing, and gathering tools of Acadians, or what could have been the Mi’kmaq people.
Mi’kmaq hunter representation
A modern, more ethnographically accurate 1920 update of an earlier 1796 rendition of the hunting, fishing, and gathering tools of Acadians, or what could have been the Mi’kmaq people.
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Library and Archives Canada
1920 ca.
Copyright: Expired
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
This is a later artist’s attempt at making a more ethnographically accurate copy of the previous image. Henri Beau was on the staff of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, owners of the original. See https://novascotia.ca/museum/mikmaq/default.asp?section=image&page=2&id=57&period=®ion=
Note that the original from the late 1700s was also a European representation of those in the Acadian area, and may have been influenced by the artists perception of Indigenous peoples in general and not necessarily from direct experience or accounts of peoples in any particular area. The text of the original book and the image in its original context, is available from around page 54 on the Google Books viewer at https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Encyclopédie_des_voyages_contenant_l_ab/HhlOI0YS7igC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=inauthor:%22Jacques+Grasset-Saint-Sauveur%22&printsec=frontcover