Mi’qmak Indian camp on a bay with Mi’qmaks shooting Canada geese; and Mi’qmak Indians hunting Canada geese

For the same subject as the first picture here, on a similar sized canvas, and undoubtedly by the same hand, see the unattributed picture in the National Gallery of Canada (6663), and the two watercolours on paper watermarked 1806 in The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, for which see I.G. Lumsden, op. cit., pp.18-19: ‘Anonymous, fl.1820, Indian Voyageurs: Hunting; and Indian Voyageurs: Returning from the hunt. The Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation. 1959.160/161. … Two watercolours in the collection of the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation and an oil painting in the National Gallery of Canada have been identified as by the hand of the “Master of the Micmac Hunting Scene”. … this artist’s compositions are characterized by closely-observed detail reflecting with considerable accuracy aspects of the east coast Micmac culture. … Ethnologists have indicated that these two watercolours and the related oil most probably portray the Micmac Indians of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The canoe with the raised gunwhale and the shaped paddles, the decorative designs on the side of the canoe and paddles, the beaded peak caps of the women and the flat “pork pie” hats of the men are all reflective of the Micmac culture.’