Mi'kmaq Series Program 4: The Wedding Feast (part 2) answers 6R
1. How is the game of Waltes played?
-It is played by tossing bone dice on a flat on a flat wooden plate and and scored by using counting sticks.
2. What clothes are worn on the wedding day?
-the bride wears her finest painted cape of rabbit fur, a dress of white moose hide
-the groom wears bones and strips of leather around the head, moose leggings, a head dress of blue jay feathers
3. How were points scored in the game the young men played with a ball covered in leather hide?
-by touching a rawhide ball to a goal post
4. Who were allowed into the wigwam to partake in the wedding feast, speeches, etc.?
-the men, the bride and the two mothers
5. What were the other people, not allowed in, doing while this was going on?
-the rest of the women and children are outside preparing food, playing game, and feasting
6. Who danced the wedding dance at the Mi'kmaq wedding?
-the groom
7. What happened as soon as the dance was over for both the bride and groom?
- cut hair was the symbol of marriage
-the bride's mother cut the brides long braids off, led her to her new place at the right side of her husband, and declared her married
-the groom cut his hair and declared himself wed.
8. Who was able to dance inside the wigwam after the wedding was declared?
-the menfolk