Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images

Ruth Holmes Whitehead

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ISBN: 9781771082631

Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images

The Mi'kmaq in Art and Photography

  Author:   Ruth Holmes Whitehead    
  Publisher:  Nimbus Publishing

The Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada were here for thousands of years before the arrival of European peoples. Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images: The Mi’kmaq in Art and Photography presents their unique culture and way of life through the remarkable and sometime complex lives of individuals, as depicted in artwork or photography.

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. Finally we see portraits of Mi’kmaw individuals, ancestors in whom we see their “humanity frozen in the stillness of a photograph,” as the writers of the book’s foreword describe.

Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images includes 94 compelling pieces of art and photography, chosen from more than a thousand extant portraits in different media, that show the Mi’kmaw people. Each image is an entry point to deeply personal history, a small moment or single person transformed into vivid immediacy for the reader.

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ISBN associated with this title: 9781771082631
Item NB1163
PublisherNimbus Publishing
PublisherNimbus Publishing
Published on May 7 2015
Language eng
Pages 128
Format Hardcover
Dimensions8(in) x 10(in)
Shipping weight728(g)
Status ACTIVE TITLE
Ruth Holmes Whitehead is a renowned Mi'kmaw historian and ethnologist. She has worked with the Nova Scotia Museum for over forty years, first as assistant curator in history and now as research associate. She is the author of several books, including Six Mi’kmaq Stories and The Old Man Told Us. She lives in Halifax.