Elitekey: Micmac Material Culture from 1600 A.D. to the Present
By: Ruth Holmes Whitehead; photos by Ron Merrick.
Contributors: Merrick, Ronald E.
Publisher: Nova Scotia Museum
Published: January, 1980
Place of publication: Halifax, N.S
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780919680135
Copyright date: 1980 The Nova Scotia Museum
Subjects: Micmac Indians -- Material culture.; Micmac art.
Description: Elitekey (pronounced él-li-dey-geh) is the Micmac word for "I fashion things". 
The book documents five centuries of Micmac material culture, ranging in time from the period before contact with Europeans to the present day. A history and technical explanation is given for crafts in the following areas: costume and decorative techniques; birchbark work; porcupine quillwork on birchbark; work in wood, bone, stone and natural fibres; and the art of basketry. -- from back cover.
Illustrated with 47 black-and-white photographs of fine art paintings, drawings, petroglyphs, excavated artifacts, Micmac peoples and decorated artifacts, motifs and techniques. 1 map.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 76-78.
No index.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: 7; label: Pre-Contact Period Costume and Decorative Techniques
title: 10; label: Post-Contact Period Costume and Decorative Techniques
title: 15; label: Birchbark Work
title: 30; label: Porcupine Quillwork on Birchbark
title: 37; label: Work in Wood, Bone and Stone
title: 44; label: Work in Natural Fibers
title: 50; label: Basketry
title: 54; label: Footnotes
title: 69; label: Bibliography
title: 76; label: Credits
title: 81