The first major work on this art form gives a comprehensive history of the craft from the period of European contact to the present. It covers materials, construction, ornamentation techniques and designs used in porcupine quill decoration, and it includes 500 black and white photographs and 30 colour plates.

Micmac Quillwork: Micmac Indian Techniques of Porcupine Quill Decoration : 1600-1950

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

Arts & Photography

Nimbus Pub Ltd

These six Mi'kmaq stories are great tales, brilliantly retold by Ruth Whitehead. They have their roots firmly planted in the collective life of a people who had made Nova Scotia their home for centuries before the arrival of the Europeans. They offer us a rare and valuable insight into the powerful relationship between the Mi'kmaq and the often surprising world in which they lived.

Six Micmac Stories (Peeper)

History

Americas

Nimbus Publishing

Stories from the Six Worlds: Micmac Legends

Ruth Holmes Whitehead is a renowned Mi'kmaq specialist and staff ethnologist and assistant curator in history at the Nova Scotia Museum in Halifax. Her publications include Six Micmac Stories, The Mi'kmaq, How Their Ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Ago, Micmac Quillwork, and Elitekey

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Yankee Books

Ruth Holmes Whitehead is a renowned Mi'kmaq specialist and staff ethnologist and assistant curator in history at the Nova Scotia Museum in Halifax. Her publications include Six Micmac Stories, The Mi'kmaq, How Their Ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Ago, Micmac Quillwork, and Elitekey.

Old Man Told Us

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

The stories in the Six Micmac Stories book were collected in the 19th & 20th centuries & have been translated as if they are being told by a Micmac. The stories are dramatic & poetic, & tell about the Micmac people & the world in which they lived

Six Micmac Stories

World

Six Mi'kmaq Stories

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Stories From the Six Worlds (2nd edition): Mi'kmaw Legends

United States

Black Loyalists is an attempt to present hard data about the lives of Black Loyalists before they escaped slavery in early South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and after they settled in Nova Scotia. This remarkable book brings back into our awareness the brave and enterprising men and women who survived the chaos of the American Revolution, people who found a way to liberty and human dignity. -- Book Jacket.

Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

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 presents their unique culture and way of life 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. Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images 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.

Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images: The Mi'kmaq in Art and Photography (Images of Our Past)

Photography & Video

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Micmac Quillwork: Micmac Indian Techniques of Porcupine Quill Decoration : 1600-1950

Six Micmac Stories (Peeper)

Stories from the Six Worlds: Micmac Legends

Stories from the Six Worlds: Micmac Legends

Old Man Told Us

Six Micmac Stories

Six Mi'kmaq Stories

Stories From the Six Worlds (2nd edition): Mi'kmaw Legends

Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images: The Mi'kmaq in Art and Photography (Images of Our Past)