Wilson Duff: Coming Back, a Life

Wilson Duff: Coming Back, a LifeThe fascinating origin story of Wilson Duff, the pioneering BC anthropologist and museologist remembered for his contributions to research on First Nations cultures of the Northwest Coast. Wilson Duff was born in 1925 in the city of Vancouver and his turbulent early years were shaped by the Great Depression and the Second World War. An intelligent child, he quickly progressed in school. After one year at the University of British Columbia, he signed

whose first instinct is not mischief and mind games but to make the world a kinder

He's lucky to have survived

and equity instruction

human-made structures and other animals

and gorgeous photography

Mini Jute Bag with Karen Francis Raven design

warm and utterly charming book

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set up a network of fur trading forts south to Oregon

and its effect on the flavour of the wild Dall sheep that graze on it

who paddled up the coast from Comox with a piano straddling two canoes

maps and original illustrations