This Week in History: Royal BC Museum releases book on orcas ahead of its upcoming exhibition

Since its first publication in 1891, the Royal BC Museum has published hundreds of works on a myriad of subjects.

Now, as the museum puts the finishing touches on its next major exhibition, Orcas: Our Shared Future, it has released a new hardcover book to accompany the exhibit.

The book, Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in Science, Art and History, is a fascinating and moving tribute to these magnificent mammals.

Veronica Cooper spoke with Kwakwaka’wakw multimedia artist Rande Cook, who contributed a carving, and also re-told an ancestral story, for the book.

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