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Totem Poles And Children
Pacific Mountain Regional Council Archives

Archival Item
[1957?]
Image > Photograph
Related School
St. Michael's (BC)
Creators and Contributors
Jacques Moon (creator)
Description
Totem poles and children outside St. Michael's Indian Residential School, Alert Bay, B.C.
Curatorial Comment
Some of the students, carvings, and buildings of St. Michael's, an Anglican Residential School in Alert Bay. This is a contact print from a photoshoot in connection with a United Church Observer article on marine missions (published July 1957). At St. Michael's, efforts had been made since at least the 1930s to teach boys to carve totem poles by hand. The boys received instruction from an Indigenous carver.
Notes
Totem poles; children.

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Residential Schools in BC (narrative thread)
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Holding Repository
Pacific Mountain Regional Council Archives
Holding Repository Identifier
BCCA 2799.8
Commission Object Identifier
38f-c000860-d0001-001
Extent and Medium

12 photographs : contact print, b&w ; 5.5 x 5.5 cm

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Copyright status: public domain
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