Inside the world of Indigenous art fraud
The Big Story
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How Common Is This in Canada?
Fraudulent designs and artifacts are common in Canadian tourist shops. Some of it has been reproduced in a sort of generic fashion where it's like, here's a mass that's a raven or whatever. It runs the gamut from recarvings to totem poles - basically everything you can think of. There's a gallery outside of Vancouver that's owned by a First Nations fellow that promotes himself as a professional carver. But every single piece is created in the Philippines or Indonesia and brought over a crate.
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