Glyphs and Gallows

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Peter Johnson
In 1996 Peter Johnson travelled B.C.’s West Coast Trail on a mission of discovery. Inspired by his longtime interest in aboriginal rock art and his friendship with Beth Hill and other petroglyph experts, Peter set out to find the intriguing glyphs of Clo-oose. Based on extensive archival research, 90-year-old correspondence, and a 1926 newspaper article, Peter set out to solve the mystery of events said to have occurred after the grounding of the John Bright in 1869. Why were two Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) Indians hung from gallows erected in front of their village at Hesquiat? And how did a distinctly related series of stone carvings come to a cove many miles to the southeast, along one of the world’s great hiking trails beside the Graveyard of the Pacific?
 

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