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Legend of the Islands | Screen Printed Card | Micmac Indian Craftsmen, , Big Cove Reserve, New BrunswickDescription
Back of Card reads: THE LEGEND OF THE ISLANDS
One day, as Glooscap was paddling his canoe near the International border at St. Stephen, he saw some wolves chasing a moose and a deer, who in their fear ran into the sea. They would have been killed or drowned had Glooscap not turned them all into Islands. Today they are known as Deer Island and The Wolves Islands which are part of Canada, while Moose Island is off the coast of Maine.
Original tapestry, 100' x 3', at Travel Bureau, St. Stephen, N. B. Designed by Marjory Donaldson and woven by Ivan H. Crowell.
Screen printed by Micmac Indian Craftsmen, Big Cove, Reserve, N. B.
Card No. 7 Printed in Canada
LEGEND OF THE ISLANDS: — DEER ISLAND, MOOSE ISLAND (EASTPORT), THE WOLVES! Front cover of card, one of five cards each featuring different art work on the front, that recently came into our collections. The cards were screen printed and produced by “Micmac Indian Craftsmen” of Big Cove, New Brunswick in the 1960s. Thousands of such cards were produced, but they became largely lost to time until a recent exhibition, Wabanaki Modern: The Artistic Legacy of the 1960s “Micmac Indian Craftsmen”, opened last year at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton and brought them to light again. Curated by our own John Leroux (we’ll claim him as he is on our board of trustees; in real life he is Manager of Collections and Exhibitions at the Beaverbrook), the exhibition recently won a major national Canadian museum award. The exhibition heads to the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor next where it opens later this year. The back of the card posted here gives the Legend of the Islands: One day, as Glooscap was paddling his canoe near the International border at St. Stephen, he saw some wolves chasing a moose and a deer, who in their fear ran into the sea. They would have been killed or drowned had Glooscap not turned them all into Islands. Today they are known as Deer Island and The Wolves Islands which are part of Canada, while Moose Island is off the coast of Maine.