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Photo, Print, Drawing Grande Riviere Festival, Native American Day, Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine

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About this Item

Title

  • Grande Riviere Festival, Native American Day, Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine

Names

  • Brassieur, C. Ray (Research team member)
  • Whitman, David A., 1950- (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Van Buren, Maine, July 15, 1991

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Maine
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Documentary photographs
  • -  United States -- Maine -- Aroostook County -- Van Buren

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: 1-2, Sign on a barn south of Van Bur en on U.S. Highway 1; quite a few of the farmers in the study area combine trucking/shipping with farming; These images document an event called Native American Day, held at the Village Acadien in Van Buren, ME, as part of the annual Grande Riviere Festival; 3-4, A group of participants, most of whom are Mic-Mac from various reserves in New Brunswick, rehearse a song before the event. Event coordinator Guy Frigon (black hat) of Frenchville, ME, is one of the singer/drummers; 5-7, Participants rehearse in front of a tipi set up especially for this event; 10-11, This object hung over the door of the tipi; I collected no information about it; 12-14, Headdress hanging on a fence post; Frigon said that this is not a true Mic-Mac style, but more of a western or plains Indian style. They use this headdress for events like this because it represents what "white folks" expect to see; 15-16, Two of the participants talk with a spectator; 17-22, Guy Frigon and Kenny Cloud of the Red Bank Reserve in New Brunswick perform a ceremony in which the drum is blessed with tobacco; 23, A sweetgrass braid is lit; the smoldering braid will be used to purify both participants and spectators; 24-26, Participants are purified with smoke from the braid, fanned with feathers; 27, Birdhouse maker Albert Michaud watches the ceremony; 28-29, Participants sing and drum while Cloud circulates through the crowd with the sweetgrass braid; 30-32, Cloud purifies spectators; 33-34, Small wooden canoe carved by Kenny Cloud; 35-36, Frigon describes pipe ceremony

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B044-4031
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-B044-4031

Source Collection

  • Maine Acadian Cultural Survey collection (AFC 1991/029)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Maine Acadian Cultural Survey collection (AFC 1991/029), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and David A Whitman. Grande Riviere Festival, Native American Day, Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine. Maine Aroostook County United States Van Buren, 1991. Van Buren, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b044_4031/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Whitman, D. A. (1991) Grande Riviere Festival, Native American Day, Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine. Maine Aroostook County United States Van Buren, 1991. Van Buren, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b044_4031/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and David A Whitman. Grande Riviere Festival, Native American Day, Village Acadien, Van Buren, Maine. Van Buren, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b044_4031/>.