| Title | Soapstone and seed beads : arts and crafts at the Charles Camsell Hospital, a tuberculosis sanatorium |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 1993 |
| Authors | Staples, A. R., McConnell R. E., McCormack P. A., & Oakes J. E. |
| Pagination | 1-68 |
| Place Published | Edmonton, Alta. : Provincial Museum of Alberta : Alberta Community Development |
| Publication Language | en |
| Keywords | handicraft, seed beads, soapstone |
| Abstract | This account of the handicraft program for native patients at the Charles Camsell Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta (a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients from the Northwest Territories in the 1940s-1960s), describes both the therapeutic aspects and the artifacts produced, with a catalogue of representative items which are now held at the Alberta Provincial Museum. |
| Topics | visual arts, first Nations |
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| Group | Humanities Bibliography |
| Citation Key | 24355 |
