Birch bark wigwam

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Object Number 2004.24.32465

Display Title Birch bark wigwam

Descriptions

Object Description Chapel Island, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia; Johnson, 1930

Keywords

Dwelling
Ethnographic

Subject

Wigwam

Department Photographic

Culture

Micmac

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / Canada / Nova Scotia / Cape Breton Island

Additional Geographic Terms Chapel Island

Materials Negative, black and white

Dimensions Overall: 6.35 x 6.35 cm (2 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)

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Object Number	Title	Geography/Provenience
34-7-10/100530.1.70	Birch bark wigwam -- taken at the Micmac mission held on Corpus Christi Day	Cape Breton Island
34-7-10/100530.1.80	A man and woman laying birch bark strips over the frame of a Micmac wigwam	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.68	Bark and tarpaper wigwams-- taken at the Micmac mission held on Corpus Christi Day	Cape Breton Island
34-7-10/100530.1.67	Bark and tarpaper wigwams -- taken at the Micmac mission held on Corpus Christi Day	Cape Breton Island
34-7-10/100530.1.66	Bark and tarpaper wigwams; taken at the Micmac mission held on Corpus Christi Day	Cape Breton Island
34-7-10/100530.1.65	Bark and tarpaper wigwams; taken at the Micmac mission held on Corpus Christi Day	Cape Breton Island
34-7-10/100530.1.109	Stages in building wigwam, detail of bottom bark strip taken from interior	Cape Breton Island
34-7-10/100530.1.95	Boy watches as man and woman lay on bark strip covering of wigwam	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.93	Man and woman laying on of covering bark strips over frame of Micmac wigwam	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.81	A man and woman laying bark strips on the frame of a Micmac wigwam	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.79	A boy watches as a man and woman lay bark strips over the frame of a Micmac wigwam	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.94	Boy watches as a man and woman lay bark covering over the frame of a wigwam	Eskasoni

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