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Amy Parent was surprised to discover a personal link between house pole and an ancestor
Author of the article: Denise Ryan
Publishing date: Dec 12, 2020 • December 14, 2020 • 3 minute read • Nisga a researcher Amy Parent with her daughter and son, holding virtual reality goggles. She is planning to use virtual reality as part of a research project that involves seeking repatriation of a Nisga a house pole from Scotland and carving of a new pole. Photo by Francis Georgian /PNG
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When Amy Parent was a young anthropology student at Simon Fraser University, she was accustomed to hearing stories of anthropologists of earlier eras, who blithely removed artifacts from Indigenous communities for their own collections or for museums.