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''Religious sister throwing a pot'' (no date)
1940

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A pottery for the residential school

In the 1930s, Alice Hagen spent her own money to start a pottery at the Indian School at Shubenacadie and trained nuns to teach the craft. But the nuns were transferred and the pottery closed. (1)
(1) Jim Lotz, Head, Heart and Hands: Craftspeople in Nova Scotia (Halifax: Braemar Publishing, 1986), p. 97.