Artifact No.18 - The Funeral
So this photograph Chris and I found at our local antique mall. It's a black and white photo of a funeral possession, procession.
There are two men lifting a coffin out of the back of a truck and a group of women looking on from the ground based on the details in the photo. It appears that the photo was probably taken in the early 1900s and the women onlookers are likely Ukrainian.
One, because we have a lot of Ukrainian settlements in and around Alberta. And two, because of the colors/decorations on the headscarves that some of the women have. So the coffin itself doesn't look really fancy, which makes me question or I guess theorize that the deceased might have been a victim of the Spanish flu, which was rampant at the time in the early 1900s.
Because it looks like it's just a plain wood coffin and it's got an X painted on the top. So it kind of makes me think it was like hastily constructed. Or if not that it was maybe all the family could afford because it's not even a cross.
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