Aggie Jimmy ’i’ tthu yuse’lu sxt’ekw’ | Aggie Jimmy and Two Carvings

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• Title: Aggie Jimmy ’i’ tthu yuse’lu sxt’ekw’ | Aggie Jimmy and Two Carvings
• Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
• Description: Aggie Jimmy with two of her carvings, including a feast bowl and a frog bowl.
  (Published 02 September 1987).

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• Speaker/Story Teller: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
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• Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:

Aggie Jimmy ’i’ tthu yuse’lu sxt’ekw’ | Aggie Jimmy and Two Carvings

1. nuts’a’ sxt’ekw’ wuxus tthu ni’ saay’st-hwus.
   One of the carvings she made is a frog. 
2. hay tthu nuts’a’ sxt’ekw’ qwthalus xpey’.
   And as for the other it is a cedar serving bowl.
3. hay tthu nuts’a’ sxt’ekw’ ni’ thuytus thu Aggie tl’lim’ ‘uw’ stamush ‘u tthu snuhwulh.
   As for the one carving made by Aggie, it’s warriors in a canoe.
4. ha’kwushus tthu s’ul’eluhw tst kwus wil’s tthu syaays.
   They are wearing what our Elders wore when they showed up for the work.
5. ni’ tl’uw’ yu ha’kwushus tthu shqitus.
   They are wearing headbands
6. hay tthu nan’uts’a’ syalhts’us.
   One of them has scraggly hair.
7. tl’uw’ sxuxil’s tthu s’athus ‘u tthu tumulh.
   Their faces are painted with ochre.
8. tl’lim’ ‘uw’ yu swi’wul’st-hwus tthu thathuns kwthu na’nuts’a’ ni’ xt’ekw’tus thu Aggie Jimmy. 
   When Aggie Jimmy carved it, she gave one of them really prominent lips.
9. hay tthu t’ult’eluw’s ni’ kwun’els ‘u tthu sq’ewums.
   Their arms are holding onto their legs.
10. ‘i ch p’uw’ yu le’lum’ut kwthu stth’am’s ni’ swi’wul’ ni’ ‘u tthu t’eluw’s ‘i’ tthu sxun’us.
    And you can actually see the bones showing on their arms and legs. 
11. tl’uw’ yu swi’wul’stum tthu luwux ni’ ‘u tthu smustimuhws .
    Their ribs are also showing on their bodies.
12. ‘uw’ thu’it ni’ tl’uw’ ni’ kw’ kw’iinu tthu ni’ yu xut’ukw’ slhulheni’.
    There were in fact various woman carvers.
13. na’nuts’a’ ni’ yath ‘uw’ yu xut’ukw’tus tthu q’uw’u yu  ‘amusst-hwus tthu s’ul’eluhw.
    One of them was always carving canes and she would give them to the Elders. 
14. hay thu na’nuts’a’ ni’ tl’uw’ yu xut’ukw’ mukw’ ‘uw’ tun’ni’ ‘u kwthunu men kwus yu tatul’utus ‘eelhtun kws yu xut’ukw’ ‘eelhtun.
    There was one that was carving and they we learning all about carving from my father. 
15. nilh kwthunu men xwinumetsa’.
    That was Simon Charlie, xwinumetsa’, my father.
16. quxulh tthu ni’ yu tutus yu tatul’utus tthu syaays kwus ni’ hwu xut’ukw’ mustimuhw.
    Alot of them were coming to study his work and becoming carvers.
17. qux smuneem qux tthu shhw’a’luqw’a’s ni’ tutus.
    There were alot of young people and alot of relatives that came here.
18. ni’ tl’uw’ wiwul’ tun’ni’ ‘u tthu pestun.
    Some were showing up from the United States.
19. ni’ ‘utl’ sqwxwa’mush kwus tetutsul’ tthu mustimuhw.
    People were coming from Vancouver.

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Key information

• Time period or Date: 1987
• Theme(s): Handiwork, Totems and House Posts,
• Location: Duncan
• Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
• Photographer credit: Keith Norbury
• Individuals identified: Aggie Jimmy

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