Research Catalog

Title

Niniskamijinaqik = Ancestral images : the Mi'kmaq in art and photography / Ruth Holmes Whitehead.

Author

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

Publication

• Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Description

xix, 123 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 21 cm.

Summary

"Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral images: the Mi'kmaq in art and photography provides a glimpse into the lives of the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada. 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. These people, too, are faceless, as anonymous to the artist as were the people of whom he had so little knowledge. This book includes 94 of the finest pieces of art or photography, chosen from more than a thousand extant portraits in different media, that show the Mi'kmaq people themselves. The images in this collection date from the earliest petroglyphs to contemporary photographs, and are accompanied by explanatory notes about the individuals represented"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Images of our past

Uniform Title

Images of our past

Alternative Title

• Ancestral images
• Mi'kmaq in art and photography

Subject

• Micmac Indians > Atlantic Provinces
• Micmac Indians > Atlantic Provinces > Portraits
• Micmac Indians
• Mi'kmaq > Art > History > Nova Scotia
• Mi'kmaq > Stone carving
• Mi'kmaq > Painting
• Mi'kmaq > Petroglyphs
• Canada > Atlantic Provinces

Genre/Form

• Portrait.
• portraits.
• group portraits.
• Portraits
• Collections.
• Photographs.
• Portraits.
• Portraits de groupe.

Note

• Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral images: the Mi'kmaq in art and photography provides a glimpse into the lives of the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada. 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. These people, too, are faceless, as anonymous to the artist as were the people of whom he had so little knowledge. This book includes 94 of the finest pieces of art or photography, chosen from more than a thousand extant portraits in different media, that show the Mi'kmaq people themselves. The images in this collection date from the earliest petroglyphs to contemporary photographs, and are accompanied by explanatory notes about the individuals represented. Provided by publisher.
• The first "i" in Niniskamijinaqik is a barred-i.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9781771082631
• 1771082631

LCCN

2015513054

OCLC

• ocn897576579
• 897576579
• SCSB-1835569

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library