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Building Brick

MOA: University of British Columbia

3045/1

One rectangular reddish brown clay brick with a slight intentional rectangular depression in the top surface. Brick has many chips, as well as splashes of green paint and white accretions.

  • Narrative

    Brick presented to the MOA Director September 19, 2013 at the opening of the exhibition "Speaking to Memory", an exhibition about St. Michael's Residential School in Alert Bay. Artist Beau Dick had collected the fallen brick from the ground and given it to Chief Robert Joseph (director of the Indian Residential School Survivors Society and one of the children who attended St. Michaels Residential School). Joseph then gave it to A. Shelton, at the opening.

  • History Of Use

    Brick from the outer wall of the building in Alert Bay ('Yalis) that used to be St. Michael's Residential School. The school was built in 'Yalis in 1894 and operated by the Anglican church from 1929 until the 1960s. In 1973 St. Michaels was turned over to the 'Namgis Nation, however the building is slated for demolition, as it is collapsing and too costly to renovate or maintain.

  • Type of Item brick
  • Culture Kwakwaka'wakw
  • Material clay, sand, lime mineral, iron oxide pigment
  • Measurements height 9.7 cm, width 21.0 cm, depth 6.0 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Beau Dick, Chief Robert Joseph, Anthony A. Shelton
  • Received from Anthony A. Shelton
  • Made in British Columbia
  • Collected in Alert Bay
  • Creation Date between 1894 and 1929
  • Collection Date during 2013
  • Ownership Date before September 19, 2013, before January 13, 2014
  • Acquisition Date on January 13, 2014
  • Item Classes ceramics
  • Condition fair
  • Accession Number 3045/0001

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