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Wooden barbeque device
Description:
This is a wooden barbeque device. Also known as "Kw'elten" in Lil'wat language. This item is used to fire roast fish. The stick is made from cedar.
Date of Object:
1988
Accession #:
988.24.03
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snow shoes
Description:
A pair of snow shoes that looked to be made of what is assumed to be deer skin netting and a cottonwood structure, which is strange considering snow shoes are usually made with stronger wood materials. Provenance is unknown. [update 2019] Previous curator classified item as "native artifact", and due to materials, origin of item is likely Lil'wat.
Date of Object:
Accession #:
988.24.01ab
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wooden ladel
Description:
Description: Cracked wooden ladle. It is brown and dirty in colour. It has a formed shaped handle that fits easily into the hand. The end of the spoon has a crack through the middle. Made from cedar wood. History: Not known.
Date of Object:
Accession #:
988.24.05
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"Sing For Christmas"
Description:
A hardcover picture book that is cream (front) and pale blue and white (back) in colour with an illustration on the front of two men playing a clarinet (top left) and the other is playing a cello (bottom left). There are also three girls singing while one is holding a book, as well there is a christmas tree (behind), and three birds (left) flying in the background. On the back there is another illustration of a flower oval patterned border with two flowers in the center (having the colours blue, pale/dark green, yellow, orange, light/dark brown, light/dark gray, pink, and apricot) titled "Sing For Christmas" by Opal Wheeler. It was published by E. P. Dutton and Company, Incorporated, New York. 1943. 127 pages.
Date of Object:
1943
Accession #:
021.04.01
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"Tales The Totems Tell"
Description:
A red-orange (front) and gray (spine) book titled "Tales The Totems Tell" by Hugh Weatherby. It was published by The MacMillan Company of Canada, Limited. 1946. 97 pages. Hugh Wallace Weatherby (1908-1985), was a writer, illustrator, editor, artist and cartoonist, who worked in the British Columbia forestry industry for many years. In his spare time Hugh must have continued landscape drawing – one identified art work is called Skookum (Haida) 1965 (Barnowsky) indicating a continued interest in the West Coast First Nations. In 1971-72 his landscape drawings were featured on the covers of the B.C. Teachers magazine. By the early 1970’s, perhaps having retired, Hugh was living in West Sechelt, north of Vancouver. He was the cartoonist (and sometimes photographer and writer) on the local paper, The Peninsula Times. Hugh Weatherby died in North Vancouver Jan. 1, 1985.
Date of Object:
1946
Accession #:
021.04.02
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"Bingo" board game
Description:
A rectangular Bingo board game box that contains thirty six Bingo cards, one checking chart, seventy two calling numbers (tokens), and one hundred and ninety six markers. It was made by Somerville Industries, Limited, London, Ontario. The cardboard box has the colours white, red, orange, pink, blue, brown, green, black, and purple. It was donated by George Henry and was used by the Henry family in Pemberton during the 1960s.
Date of Object:
ca. 1960s
Accession #:
021.05.01
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