by Cynthia Martin and Michelle Lelièvre, MMNN Contributors
Eltaqte’key: I Weave With A Loom
(L-R) Cynthia Martin and Alyssa Abram celebrate finding the first artifact of the 2018 field season.
Every evening for two weeks in July 2019, Cynthia Martin sat in the dining room of our rented field house in Parrsboro weaving with her rigid heddle loom. Each night the cloth would grow a little longer as she passed the weft-wound shuttle (tatuwi’kn) between the hemp threads of the warp. Cynthia was combining a European technology (the loom) and a bast plant fibre similar to the those found in Mi’kma’ki (hemp) to create a sustainable tarp that would eventually make its way to the bottom of an archaeological test ...
