Rare Pacific Northwest artifacts lost in Brazil museum fire

Dozens of rare Pacific Northwest artifacts are believed destroyed after fire tore through a museum in Brazil Sunday, says a UBC curator, with some dating back to the 1700s.
Karen Duffek, a curator at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology and expert in Pacific Northwest artifacts, says one of the 42 Pacific Northwest pieces lost when the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro burned down Sunday was a set of wooden armour made by Indigenous people on the North Coast.
The Tlingit armour, which was cra