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

About this Item

Title

  • Native American Day, Grande Riviere Festival, 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: 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; 2-8, Pipe ceremony; event coordinator Guy Frigon (center, light-colored shirt) of Frenchville, ME, explains the ceremony to the spectators; 9-10, Singing and drumming begins for the first dance; 11-14, The dance begins; 15-22, The dance continues; spectators are asked to join the dance; 23-25, A second dance, similar to the first; Frigon said both dances were "circle dance"; 26-27, Handcarved wooden canoe containing the sweetgrass braid use in purification ritual (see MAP-DW-B044); 28-29, Frigon and another Mic-Mac, name unknown, demonstrate different drumming rhythms; 30-35, Visitors from the town of Ste-Ouenne, France, attended the event; here, the mayor of Ste-Ouenne tries on a headdress; 36-end, Field coordinator Ray Brassieur talks with one of event participants.

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: DW-B045-4026
  • Field project identifier: MAP-DW-B045-4026

Source Collection

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

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image

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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. Native American Day, Grande Riviere Festival, Van Buren, Maine. United States Maine Aroostook County Van Buren, 1991. Van Buren, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b045_4026/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. & Whitman, D. A. (1991) Native American Day, Grande Riviere Festival, Van Buren, Maine. United States Maine Aroostook County Van Buren, 1991. Van Buren, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b045_4026/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray, and David A Whitman. Native American Day, Grande Riviere Festival, Van Buren, Maine. Van Buren, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_dw_b045_4026/>.