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Peter Deny and shaving block
Peter Deny and shaving block
Object Number 2004.24.31656
Display Title Peter Deny and shaving block
Descriptions
Keywords
  • Ethnographic
  • Proper Name
Department Photographic
Date 1930
Artist Hillel S. Burger
Culture
  • Micmac
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / Canada / Nova Scotia / Cape Breton Island
Additional Geographic Terms Chapel Island Mission
Materials Negative, black and white
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 12.7 cm (4 x 5 in.)

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