The Micmac : how their ancestors lived five hundred years ago / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Harold McGee ; illustrations by Kathy Kaulbach.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Whitehead, Ruth Holmes, author.
• McGee, Harold Franklin, author.

Contributor:

• Kaulbach, Kathy, illustrator.
• Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)
• Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Micmac Indians--Juvenile literature.
• Micmac Indians.
• Indians of North America.

Genre:

• Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

• Blank, Fritz (donor)

Physical Description:

[6], 60, [2] pages : illustrations, map ; 18 x 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[Halifax, N.S.] : Nimbus Publishing Limited, [1983]

Notes:

Introduction -- Abundant Forest, Rivers of Fish. Animal persons, plan persons; Herds of sea mammals; Fish as long as a canoe; Calling the moose; Hot soup and roast meat -- Family and Community. Linked by kinship, friendship and trade; Peace in the family; Children growing and learning; Preparing a marriage and a feast; Celebration with chanting and dancing -- Traditional Micmac Skills. Cloth; Decoration; Wigwam means shelter; Canoe; Tumpline and toboggan; Snowshoes; Tools; Pipes and waltes games; Reeds, roots and porcupine quills; Baskets, boxes, bags and bowls -- Medicine and Magic. Whole communities began to die; Struggle.

Local Notes:

• Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
• Kislak copy is "6th printing 1992"?

ISBN:

• 0920852211
• 9780920852217
• 0920852238
• 9780920852231

OCLC:

11064217