Kitimat Museum seeking help to identify and update Haisla cultural objects

Feb 11, 2016, 05:25 PM

"The Haisla Nation heritage collection needs to be re-housed and presented with cultural information. Baskets, masks, bentwood boxes, stone tools, and traditional fishing and food processing equipment are currently displayed in an assortment of mismatched cases in the Museum Upstairs Gallery – one dating to 1969 and one quite rickety – with minimal cultural information and inefficient space usage."

So reads the job description for a Haisla Culture Consultant at the Kitimat Museum and Archives. We speak to curator Louise Avery about what's needed.

Full job description here: http://www.kitimatmuseum.ca/sites/default/files/Contractor.pdf