After 62 years, this Innu woman was finally able to see her mother's artwork
CBC News | October 17, 2021
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After 62 years, this Innu woman was finally able to see her mother's artwork.
Family heirlooms are often tucked away in someone's basement. For Germaine Benuen, they were stored in the Canadian Museum of History, near Ottawa.
Benuen, who lives in the Innu community of Sheshatshiu in central Labrador, was returning from a three-week cross-country road trip to British Columbia in September when she followed up on a tip that hand-beaded moccasins that her late mother made 62 years ago were on display at the Canadian Museum of History, in Gatineau, Que.
"When we were driving by, I said we have to stop at the museum to see what we can find," Benuen told CBC Radio's Labrador Morning.
While she could not find anything on display, emails and phone calls with staff helped her quickly track down the moccasins in the museum's collection storage.
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