<div dir="ltr">Could it be a broach?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bcma@lists.vifa.ca" target="_blank">bcma@lists.vifa.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000"><div> <div style="color:#000000;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Hello all,</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I am passing on a query about a mystery artifact from Sarah Beaulieu, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Archaeology, SFU. She has been excavating the Morrissey World War I internment camp near Fernie BC and has found the artifact in the attached pictures.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><img>The camp held men of Ukrainian, German and other Eastern European origin, with a few women and children. Some were Canadian citizens. The guards were Canadians of various ethnic origins. Guard families may have been present as well.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">It appears to be whole, not broken off something, and has one good side. Made from a yet to be determined metal. May have been plated.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Any and all ideas welcome on this one. Please direct your answers to Sarah at <a href="mailto:sbeaulie@sfu.ca" target="_blank">sbeaulie@sfu.ca</a>.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif;font-size:13.3333px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div> </div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Barbara</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Barbara J. Winter<br>Director, Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology<br>Department of Archaeology<br>Faculty of the Environment<br>Simon Fraser University<br>8888 University Drive<br>Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6<br><br>t. 778.782.3325<br>f. 778.782.5666<br><a href="mailto:bwinter@sfu.ca" target="_blank">bwinter@sfu.ca</a><br><a href="http://www.sfu.museum" target="_blank">www.sfu.museum</a><br><br></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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