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Transcript: Roger Fernandez

When you are physically sick you are also spiritually sick

[Fernandez:]
When you’re physically sick, your spirit is sick as well, and so your spirit has to be taken care of as well as your body, and so for some Native people your spirit actually precedes your physical self. So I found these beautiful, powerful, primal little spirit figures that were used in ceremonies or healing, and a lot of the artwork, a lot of the masks, a lot of the rattles, a lot of the things in the Northwest Coast are used in healing ceremonies.