General collection

Indian headsIndian heads

These two Indian head carvings were donated to the museum by Marion Sutherland of Westlock. They had been stored in her mother’s basement, and she discovered them in a trunk at the foot of the stairs in 1974. They had been found among the trees along the Pembina River by a timber inspector who brought them to the farm of Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Berry, south of Westlock, some time in the early 1900s. Similar carvings have been found in the Sangudo area, according to curators at the Provincial Museum in Edmonton. They are believed to date from the 1800s.

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