This box and the medicines contained, were created and gathered in 2018 for Rebecca Johnson’s Business Associations course. The artist wanted to learn more about First Nation’s connections to plant medicines and the economy around them. The artist gathered the medicines on a trip to Salt Spring Island. The contents are licorice fern, juniper berries, madrone leaves and bark, grand fir pine needles, and heather flowers. The box is made of birch bark.
Photos by Max Gross