Joyce and another of the workshop students plan to wear their newly illuminated regalia during a dance performance in Eskasoni on Canada Day.With files from Information Morning Cape BretonThe students used a product called StitchKit, which Aubichon describes as a "user-friendly tech" the students can install themselves.She's created pieces intended to honour Indigenous women, including a commemorative regalia that uses LED lights and fibre optics to illuminate a fringe hanging from the dress's arms.Joyce, 16, also added some lights to her shawl.The weekend workshop was hosted by Potlotek Education and Cape Breton University as part of the Island Wise project at CBU, which offers science outreach education to young women in communities across Cape Breton."I wanted to emphasize the light that a person carries … and the fringing is an important part of what we do. This pleases David Christianson, the manager of collections at the Nova Scotia Museum. So the Nova Scotia Museum has offered to make an application for the Regalia with the written intent to have it housed at the Glooscap centre.Using an RSS Reader you can access most recent stories and other feeds posted on this network.Receive the latest articles right in your inbox!“Right now, we’re at a stand still. After it was down, they would move in to finish it off with spears and their dogs. Within the last decade, museums around the world have experienced an increase in the number of repatriation requests, often from indigenous peoples seeking the return of culturally significant items.Ginnish suspects Museum Victoria is being deluged with similar requests and may be backlogged.Deborah Ginnish, co-ordinator at the Mi’kmaq Association for Cultural Studies, is working with Bernard on the repatriation project.The Chief’s Regalia has never been part of an exhibit in Australia.
The Chief's Regalia includes coat, leggings, and moccasins made of navy-coloured wool duffel.
Because their Algonquian dialect differed greatly She began her artistic expression at a young age, making regalia and beadwork, and is skilled in both traditional and contemporary styles. Mi’kmaq women still make these peaked caps and wear them for special occasions. Simply browse this site on your smart phone.“It’s been very well looked after and is just in immaculate condition,” Christianson says.“If a museum finds that any of its material was obtained through illegal or unethical means, the museum will make an effort to return those objects,” he says.The Nova Scotia Museum has small collections on loan to several Mi’kmaw community cultural centres.
It’s priceless.
A group of young sewers in Potlotek First Nation is learning how to use technology to enhance traditional Mi'kmaq regalia. They formally complained to the French commander at Louisbourg about the French king transferring the sovereignty of their nation when he did not possess it.
This display case houses photographs of Indigenous regalia dating to about the early 1840s.