Archive / Dr Raley beside a totem pole

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  1. Dr Rally beside a totem pole, circa 1940
Item Details

Title: [Dr Raley beside a totem pole]

Date: [1940]

Format: Photograph [black and white print]

Location: VPL Special Collections

Fonds: VPL #4940 CD #140

Size: 20.20 × 25.70 cm

More Information: Raley was one of the founding members of the Coqualeetza social club, which had an Arts and Crafts committee with a mandate to “gather and display items made by Native people of BC and America.”  Collection of the Vancouver Public Library, Special Collections, VPL 4940.

Further Research: Aboriginal Art in the Sixties
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