![]() ![]() This book includes 94 compelling pieces of art and photography, chosen from more than a thousand extant portraits in different media, that show the Mi kmaq people. Finally, we see portraits of Mi kmaq individuals, ancestors in whom we see their humanity frozen in the stillness of a photograph. Then there are the earliest surviving European depictions of Mi kmaq, decorations on the maps of Samuel de Champlain. 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. This book presents their unique culture and way of life through the remarkable and sometime complex lives of individuals, as depicted in artwork or photography. From the blurb The Mi kmaq of Atlantic Canada were here for thousands of years before the arrival of European peoples. ![]() Niniskamijinaqik Ancestral Images: The Mi kmaq in Art and Photography Ruth Holmes Whitehead Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, 2015, copyright Nova Scotia Museum. ![]()
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