Skip to main content
Go back

Like their Ancestors

Two Aboriginal boys stand in a wooden rowboat near the shore, facing the photographer. Each one is holding a nigogue, a type of harpoon, above the water as if preparing to spear a fish. Black and white photograph.

Location: Darlington, New Brunswick
Date: 1951
Photo: Luc Lacoursière (1910-1989)
Archives de Folklore Université Laval, Luc Lacoursière fonds

Two Indigenous adolescents fishing eel with nigogues, a type of harpoon, in shallow water. This scene took place in 1951 on the Eel River opposite the territory of the Eel River Bar Mi’kmaq First Nation, 3 km south of Dalhousie, New Brunswick.