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Miniature geese decoys made of beautiful smelling Tamarack twigs bound together by James Bay Cree. Traditionally these were made in life-size versions for hunting but are now also an amazing handicraft (from my sister’s collection).

This mural references the excellent and specific Glasgow lore that the real Merlin was from what is now Ardery Street in the Partick neighbourhood of the city, where is said to have lived from 600 to 618 CE.

An 1841 drawing of a Mi'kmaq family on a parchment scroll by Henry O'Halloran, a British officer adopted as an honorary chief. The people are identified as Toma Selman and Sosep Mali Itkobej and their children, from what is now known as Listuguj First Nation.

“Drum Dancer” (1973) by the brilliant Inuk sculptor Karoo Ashevak, who carved figures from stories he heard in his traditional childhood out of weathered old pieces of whalebone left by 19th-century whalers and Inuit ancestors.

Susan Stewart reminds us that "the gigantic envelops us, but is inaccessible to lived experience”; “the gigantic, occurring in transcended space, a space above, analogously mirrors the abstraction of institutions…of religion, the state…” Much like this gigantic Tunnock’s Tea Cake in Glasgow.

My family and community are taking part in this important study

Mi'kmaw group to study impact of DDT, glyphosate on N.B. moose | CBC NewsThe North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council is embarking on a study to see if chemicals, such as DDT and glyphosate, are affecting moose, a major part of the Mi'kmaw food system.www.cbc.ca

Tropical view of Brodick Castle on the Isle of Arran, which often hosted Napoleon III during his exile in the 1840s while plotting his ascent to power; Marx later described him as a “grotesque mediocrity” and inspired his famous dictum that historical figures appear first as tragedy, then as farce.

Views from a Scottish ferry of Holy Isle on the right, home to the 6th-century hermit Saint Molaise, and on the left Ailsa Craig, whose distant outline inspired Keats to write about the “craggy ocean pyramid” and eternity.

This is amazing-- a page of Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs or gomgwejui'gasit, with their meanings in Mi'kmaq and some in English; these were written by a Naskapi-Innu man named Gabriel in the 1790s.