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Niniskamijinaqik = Ancestral images : the Mi'kmaq in art and photography

Niniskamijinaqik = Ancestral images : the Mi'kmaq in art and photography

Book 2015

"Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral images: the Mi'kmaq in art and photography provides a glimpse into the lives of the Mi'kmaq of Atlantic Canada. The opening images in this collection were created by the Mi'kmaq themselves: portrayals of human beings carved into the rock formations of Nova Scotia. Then there are the earliest surviving European depictions of Mi'kmaq, decorations on the maps of Samuel de Champlain. These people, too, are faceless, as a...

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