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Micmac quillwork : Micmac Indian techniques of porcupine quill decoration : 1600-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; with an appendix on quilled-back conservation by Deborah Jewett.

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Micmac quillwork : Micmac Indian techniques of porcupine quill decoration : 1600-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; with an appendix on quilled-back conservation by Deborah Jewett.
Author
Whitehead, Ruth Holmes
Publication
Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1982.

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Additional Authors
  • Jewett, Deborah F.
  • Nova Scotia Museum.
Description
230 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 29 cm.
Summary
Major portion of the work deals with the bark insertion technique. Lavishly illustrated with black and white and colour photographs.
Subject
  • Indian art > North America > History
  • Indian craft
  • Indians of North America > History
  • Micmac Indians > Industries
  • Micmac art > History
  • Micmac art
  • Quillwork > Maritime Provinces
  • Quillwork > New England
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 216-220.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0919680224
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library