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Photo, Print, Drawing Native American Day, Grande Riviere Festival, Van Buren, Maine; Various scenes, Frenchville, Maine

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About this Item

Title

  • Native American Day, Grande Riviere Festival, Van Buren, Maine; Various scenes, Frenchville, Maine

Names

  • Brassieur, C. Ray (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Van Buren, Maine; Frenchville, Maine, 1991

Headings

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

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography
  • Documentary photographs

Notes

  • -  Index data: These images document Native American Day, and event held at the Village Acadien in Van Buren, ME, as part of the annual Grande Riviere Festival; 1-3, Purification ceremony. Mic-Mac Indian Kenny Cloud of Red Bank Reserve in New Brunswick circulates through the crowd with a smoldering sweetgrass braid; smoke from the braid is fanned with feathers to envelop each person in turn; 4-7, Sweetgrass braid is used to light ceremonial pipe; each person in attendance was then given a chance to smoke the pipe; 8, Music begins for the first dance. One of the drummers is event coordinator Guy Frigon (light blue shirt); 9, A few of the spectators; 10, The first dance; members of the audience were asked to join the dance, and some did; 11-14, Among the spectators was a group of visitors from Ste-Ouenne, France; here, the mayor of Ste-Ouenne tries on a headdress and poses with Guy Frigon (#14); Some miscellaneous images; 15, Flag, possibly a family crest, Eagle Lake; 16, Seal of the University of Maine-Fort Kent on the door of one of their official vehicles; 17, Abandoned Frenchville Starch Factory, Frenchville, ME; 18, Large storage barns called potato houses, Frenchville; this type of potato house was used to store produce prior to shipment. A number of these are still standing, but only a few are still in use; 19, Fieldworker David Whitman talks with retired railroad conductor Bob LaBonte in the Village Acadien parking lot; 20, Does not exist

Medium

  • 35 mm color slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1991/029: RB-C009
  • Field project identifier: MAP-RB-C009

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. Native American Day, Grande Riviere Festival, Van Buren, Maine; Various scenes, Frenchville, Maine. Maine Van Buren Aroostook County United States Frenchville, 1991. Van Buren, Maine; Frenchville, Maine. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_rb_c009/.

APA citation style:

Brassieur, C. R. (1991) Native American Day, Grande Riviere Festival, Van Buren, Maine; Various scenes, Frenchville, Maine. Maine Van Buren Aroostook County United States Frenchville, 1991. Van Buren, Maine; Frenchville, Maine. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_rb_c009/.

MLA citation style:

Brassieur, C. Ray. Native American Day, Grande Riviere Festival, Van Buren, Maine; Various scenes, Frenchville, Maine. Van Buren, Maine; Frenchville, Maine. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1991029_rb_c009/>.