This collection consists of materials collected by Ashley Halko-Addley for her graduate research project, Waxing Away Illness, at the University of Alberta. In 2018, Ashley conducted interviews and observations of the wax ceremony in Saskatchewan and Alberta. This collection consists primarily of transcripts, audio recordings, and fieldnotes, with select supplementary materials.
A supplementary website was created by Ashley Halko-Addley. The website highlights some of the participants and important selections from their interviews. The website can be accessed here:
https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/waxingawayillness/
Ukrainian Brazilian family is having their feast meal on the wooden tables outside, churrascos (“shurrascu”, barbecue) are standing on the poles in the middle of the tables.
