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Report on Squamish Nation Artifact Collections at the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives
Academic Work
In the summer of 2010, the Sunshine Coast Museum and Archives (SCMA) in Gibsons, B.C., contacted the Squamish Nation in regards to artifact collections housed in their facility. The SCMA staff asked members of Squamish Nation Chief and Council, Elderly Advisory Group, and Cultural and Heritage specialists to view these materials. Initial assessment by these groups found that these materials are of great cultural importance to the Squamish Nation.
Subsequent meetings between Julie Baker and Deborah Baker of Squamish Nation Chief and Council, Kimiko Hawkes of the SCMA, Rudy Reimer of Simon Fraser University (SFU), and the Archaeological Society of British Columbia (ASBC) we decided that these materials needed proper cataloguing, photography, analysis, and curation. These steps would ensure the artifacts' proper use and their development into an educational exhibit at the SCMA. Rudy Reimer suggested that the ASBC could fulfill this role and he quickly canvassed ASBC membership for volunteers to help with this task.
On October 29th and 30th, 2010, ASBC members Rudy Reimer (project leader), Robyn Ewing, Jennifer Lewis, Sarah Kavanagh, Jim Pound, Darryl Kirsch, Louise Williams, and Sean Alward catalogued, photographed, analyzed, and brought these cultural materials up to current-day museum standard of
curation (Figure 1). Over two hundred artifacts were examined and a summary of our findings is presented here.
Subsequent meetings between Julie Baker and Deborah Baker of Squamish Nation Chief and Council, Kimiko Hawkes of the SCMA, Rudy Reimer of Simon Fraser University (SFU), and the Archaeological Society of British Columbia (ASBC) we decided that these materials needed proper cataloguing, photography, analysis, and curation. These steps would ensure the artifacts' proper use and their development into an educational exhibit at the SCMA. Rudy Reimer suggested that the ASBC could fulfill this role and he quickly canvassed ASBC membership for volunteers to help with this task.
On October 29th and 30th, 2010, ASBC members Rudy Reimer (project leader), Robyn Ewing, Jennifer Lewis, Sarah Kavanagh, Jim Pound, Darryl Kirsch, Louise Williams, and Sean Alward catalogued, photographed, analyzed, and brought these cultural materials up to current-day museum standard of
curation (Figure 1). Over two hundred artifacts were examined and a summary of our findings is presented here.
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