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Artist Ray Boudreau says he is "100% positive" that an object, left, which recently washed up on a Canadian beach, is a sandstone carving he was working on in 2017 that disappeared overnight Photos: Royal BC Museum, Grant Keddie and Ray Boudreau A Canadian artist says that a totemic stone pillar discovered on the beach in Victoria, British Columbia, which archaeologists of the Royal British Columbia Museum thought was a ritual Lekwungen object, is actually a work-in-progress of his made just a few years ago, which went missing and might have been swept into the ocean. Las...

A carved stone pillar found at low tide on a beach in Victoria last summer is an Indigenous cultural treasure, the Royal B.C. Museum has confirmed. The museum is working with the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations to determine the most suitable home for the pillar carved with the features of a face, Songhees Chief Ron Sam said in an interview on Wednesday. Over the years, many artifacts have been unearthed in the area, he said, but nothing has matched the 100-kilogram stone pillar. "I can't wait to find out more information from our elders," said Sam, noting interactions with elders are l...