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  Dos Polacas: Photography, Heart and Stories

Elder and chief
​beau dick,
​Kwakwaka'wakw
​carver

This page is dedicated to our friend and mentor, Chief Beau Dick.

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Pamela and Beau consider the original Edward S. Curtis photograph taken of a relative of Beau's a century ago to decide how to proceed.
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A portrait of Chief Beau Dick replicating a Curtis photograph taken in the early 20th century.
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Beau Dick telling a story of time and mystery.
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During Lalakenis/All Directions, Vancouver, British Columbia, many babies were given their first names, some quietly, some laughing, others complaining loudly.
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Lalakenis/All Directions celebrated two journeys, instigated by Beau and his daughters but accompanied by many activists, to break coppers on the steps of regional and federal buildings in order to shame the governments into recognizing indigenous rights.
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Beau is playing a guitar as musical accompaniment to a fashion show of clothing designed by Sho Sho Esquiro and produced by Joleen Mitton. Go to http://www.dos-polacas.com/lalakenis---fashion-show.html for a video.
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Beau and his grandson wearing Kwakwaka'wakw masks and costumes. The larger figure is ba̱k̕wa̱s, or wild man of the woods.
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Inside the ba̱k̕wa̱s or Wild Man of the Woods is the human.
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The ba̱k̕wa̱s figure with skulls around his neck, long claws and long hair all over his body.

This YouTube video, "Maker of Monsters", produced by LaTiesha Fazakas of Fazakas Gallery in Vancouver BC,  is about
​Chief Beau Dick: a humanitarian and ​Master Carver in the Kwakwaka'wakw tradition.

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    • Stanley Hunt
    • Chief Beau Dick
  • Past Projects
    • Headman Jim Thomas, Tlingit
    • Reconciliation Pole >
      • VIDEO 1 Reconciliation Pole
      • Copper Nails
    • 2016 Paddle to Nisqually >
      • VIDEO: Paddle to Nisqually
    • Lummi Pole Journey
    • Alert Bay - June Pageantry
    • Lalakenis >
      • Tea with Chief Beau Dick >
        • Tlingit Story of the Copper
        • Raven Story
      • Lalakenis - Box of Treasures
      • Lalakenis - Fashion Show
      • Lalakenis - Second Day
    • Glacier Bay Big House
    • Opening Hearts
    • 2015 Climate Change Conference
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