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Ellen Neel in 1965
I just had to post this photo. I’m pretty sure it was one of the few photo’s I saw of my grandmother as I was growing up. It looks as though it was taken on a BC Ferries Ferry.
Roundabout with a Totem Pole Carver
I managed to get a copy of this audio recording (thanks, Lou-ann). I believe it may have been recorded sometime in the late 1940’s. It had to have been recorded after 1948 as Ellen mentions the totem pole at that was raised in front of Brock Hall at UBC.
It appears that Roundabout was a CBC [...]
The words of Ellen Neel, April 1948
Sixty Years ago this month, my maternal grandmother, Ellen Neel, gave an address at a conference on Native Indian Affairs at the University of British Columbia. Ellen was considered one of the most well known (if not the only) woman Totem carver’s to gain recognition in that field. I will post some more info about [...]
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