Products featuring hand-screened images based on old Nova Scotian headstone art.
About We offer tote bags, T-shirts, and occasional special items featuring hand-screened images based on 18th-Century Nova Scotian gravestone art. The images we offer are “Death Heads” (stylized skulls with wings) or “Soul Effigies” (faces with wings), collected from 18th-Century headstones. We will be adding additional items soon, so check back! You can read more about how we do what we do here.
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This image is based on the headstone of Batthias Douglass (d. 1 October 1720). Featuring a “death’s head”, or winged skull, the stone was carved by the Boston carver Nathaniel Emmes, and stands in the Old Garrison cemetery, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. This gravestone is the oldest remaining one in Canada, and contains Canada’s oldest English-language inscription.
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