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Taking care: Indigenous carver John Spence creating a moon mask and wolf plaques

August 26, 2020 By Michael Wuitchik 6 Comments

  If Shelley and I had never purchased a float home on traditional lands of the Squamish First Nation in North Vancouver we never would have thought to seek out a local carver to create a moon mask–and I wouldn’t have met John Spence. John, or ‘JP’, was born and raised on the Capilano Reserve […]

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