After 62 years, this Innu woman was finally able to see her mother's artwork
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Family heirlooms are often tucked away in someone's basement. For Germaine Benuen, they were stored in the Canadian Museum of History, near Ottawa.
Benuen, who lives in the Innu community of Sheshatshiu in central Labrador, was returning from a three-week cross-country road trip to British Columbia in September when she followed up on a tip that hand-beaded moccasins that her late mother made 62 years ago were on display at the Canadian Museum of History, which is in Gatineau, Que.
"When we were driving by, I said we have to stop at the museum to see what we can find," Benuen told CBC Radio's Labrador Morning.
While she could not find anything on display, emails and phone calls with staff helped her quickly track down the moccasins in the museum's collection storage.
"It felt peaceful," she said. "It was almost like … my mother was there for a second."
Louisa Benuen, who died in 2000, was originally from the former Innu community of Davis Inlet off Labrador's northern coast. According to the museum, she was 28 when she is thought to have made the moccasins in 1959, shortly before she moved to North West River.
Such moccasins are traditionally made with caribou skin and are hand-stitched.
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