George Creed grouped his petroglyph tracings into broad categories depending on the subjec: ships, people, canoes, animals, etc. In doing this he broke up groupings and made separate tracings of individual images. It is impossible to tell from Creed's tracings what the context was, or the relationships of the individual images to each other.  Unfortunately, any meaning conveyed by the overall grouping of images has been lost.


For example, Creed recorded the following images and catalogued them in three separate groups

A.2 Peaked Cap

E.33 Couple in ceremonial dress

E.38 Couple in ceremonial dress

K.8 Hand with Peaked Cap and European-style felted Beaver fur hat on palm

 


Photo: B.L. Molyneaux, 1982
© Parks Canada
However, this photograph of the same petroglyphs in situ at George's Lake, Kejimkujik National Park, clearly shows the four images in a close grouping.

This image may represent Mi'kmaw couples in ceremonial dress dancing around the large central hand.


 

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