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Sechelt-Image

Sechelt First Nation, Salish People, Northwest Coast Indian. The “Sechelt Image,” height 20”. Wilson Duff comments, “His head is powerfully masculine, and he clasps a huge phallus. . . . Below the phallus is a vulva. The phallus has arms, which clasp the man. His ambiguity is absolute: ‘male strength’ is also ‘mother and child’.”