This is a digital reproduction of a mid-nineteenth century ferrotype of Molly Muise, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. One of earliest photos taken of a Mi'kmaq. |
According to the photographer, left to right are Mrs. Mary Toney, Annapolis; Glyd Meuse; Chief
James Meuse, who died April 1912; Mrs. Madeline Paul with a child; Fanny (Mrs. Noel) Pictou. In 1917,
however, Jerry Lonecloud, a Mi'kmaq picker for the Nova Scotia Museum, sold a second copy of this photograph
(17.42/4571, now missing) to the museum. He dated it as 1907. In the accession records, the subjects are identified as
(L-R): Magdalene Bunch, Glyd Meuse and her husband Jim [Chief James Meuse], Mary Michael with child, and Magdalene
Toney, all of Bear River. Notice the baskets, the snowshoe, the rustic chair.
The peaked cap is traditional, the other feathered headdresses worn by these women are not. |