Unknown Maker, Mi'kmaq (Micmac)

The Micmac Indians of the Canadian Maritime Provinces came into contact with Europeans as early as the 17th century, obtaining tradecloth and Venetian glass beads before other groups. The traditional and possibly precontact MicMac hood form has been made in red and black tradecloth instead of skin, and the traditional precontact double curve motif, derived from prehistoric petroglyphs, has been applied with beads strung on horesehair and couched down, because the beads were too small to accommodate a needle.