A Winnipeg woman is crediting social media and a good Samaritan with reuniting her with about $3,000 worth of traditional beadwork jewelry that was stolen from her car recently.
After five beaded pieces were stolen from Tabetha Linklater’s vehicle in late April, she wrote a Facebook post asking for help in finding them.
The unique pieces were made by her husband and can take weeks or months to create.
Four days after the Facebook post went up, Linklater said she got a call from the owner of Cree-Ations and Artist Showcase on Main Street.
“He says, ‘I have them here,’ and I was really starting to shake and started to cry and I [said], ‘OK, what?’ And he told me, he goes, ‘Yeah, we have all five here,'” she told CBC News on Tuesday.
Linklater said she was told that a woman tried to sell the beads, but a shop employee recognized the unique works as the stolen items and took them back.
“You can’t be selling other people’s beadwork. It would have been obvious,” Linklater said.
“It would have got tracked back to her basically, you know, because every artist, whether they’re doing beadwork or painting or making regalia, everybody has their own unique style to it.”
Linklater said police are investigating the theft, but she’s just happy to get the beadwork back.
