Sharon Fortney, senior curator of Indigenous collections, engagement and repatriation at the Museum of Vancouver, said the symbol’s roots run far deeper than the Nazi era. “The design on the basket was unfortunately appropriated as a symbol of Nazi Germany, but is a design that sometimes appears on Indigenous made objects from the Plateau region of B.C. and was also used at times by various tribes in the United States,” Fortney said in an email.
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