Boys playing a game

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Object Number 34-7-10/100530.1.76

Display Title Boys playing a game

Descriptions

Object Description Written on board: "Micmac, Algonquian. Boys playing game. Eskasonie, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Photos by Frederick Johnson, 1930."

Keywords

Ethnographic
Recreation

Subject

Playing game

Department Photographic

Date 1928-1930

Artist Frederick Johnson

Culture

Micmac

Geography/Provenience/Site Name

North America / Canada / Nova Scotia / Cape Breton Island / Eskasoni

Additional Geographic Terms Costal

Materials Gelatin silver print adhered to Paperboard

Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 15.24 cm (4 x 6 in.)

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Object Number	Title	Geography/Provenience
34-7-10/100530.1.35	Mary Ann Morris and Peter Deny playing waltes tag'n, a Micmac bow and dice game	Cape Breton Island
34-7-10/100530.1.77	Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Morris playing the waltes'tagɣn, a Micmac bowl and dice game	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.71	Tarpaper wigwams and men playing games	Cape Breton Island
34-7-10/100530.1.95	Boy watches as man and woman lay on bark strip covering of wigwam	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.79	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
34-7-10/100530.1.93	Man and woman laying on of covering bark strips over frame of Micmac wigwam	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.92	Stages in building Micmac wigwam; Addition of light poles to foundation frame and hoop	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.91	Stages in building Micmac wigwam; Addition of light poles to foundation frame and hoop	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.90	Stages in building Micmac wigwam; Addition of light poles to foundation frame and hoop	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.81	A man and woman laying bark strips on the frame of a Micmac wigwam	Eskasoni
34-7-10/100530.1.80	A man and woman laying birch bark strips over the frame of a Micmac wigwam	Eskasoni

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