Rectangular Splint Mi'kmaq (Micmac) Basket
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994
- Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
- Culture
- Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
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- Frederick Johnson photograph collection
- Frederick Johnson photograph collection / Series 3: Canada: Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, Mi'kmaq (Micmac) / 3.4: Eskasoni Reserve, Nova Scotia
- Extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic)
- Date
- 1930
- Archival Repository
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Identifier
- NMAI.AC.001.038, Item N19931
- Type
- Archival materials
- Negatives (photographic)
- Collection Citation
- Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frederick Johnson photograph collection, Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited users to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not changed, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. Some images restricted: Cultural Sensitivity
- Scope and Contents
- Wide rectangular splint Mi'kmaq (Micmac) basket, 17/6413.000 in the NMAI collection, propped up and photographed inside a canvas tent on the Eskasoni Reserve, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Rectangular (wicker plaited) splint basket and cover, red, black and blue (painted) decoration, made about 1891.
- Collection Restrictions
- Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
- Record ID
- ebl-1518645605302-1518645605466-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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