Sechelt Image

SECHELT IMAGE, one of the masterworks of Northwest Coast aboriginal ART, is a prehistoric, 50-cm-high granite statuette weighing 32 kg that children discovered under a tree root near SECHELT in 1921. The Sechelt First Nation believe that the sculpture is a mortuary stone depicting a mother holding a child. The story goes that the sculptor was a man whose wife had killed herself after the tragic death of their only son. The Image was the centrepiece of an exhibition of aboriginal stone...

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