Category: Cowichan Valley Museum & Archives
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Potlatch at Somenos featuring Masked Dancers and a canoe with blanket in front of the longhouse and many spectators.
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A horse-drawn carriage brings a woman to the Corfield Store where many people sold and traded their wares.
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Many people gathered to celebrate the unveiling of the new Totem Collection and recognize Duncan as the City of Totems.
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Large group posed in front of a house in traditional outfits. Many of the men are wearing headresses associated with plains First Nations.
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Nicely dressed woman holding a coffee (or tea) pot, walking toward a building.
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Float for the Duncan Parade in June, 1955. A truck decorated in blankets and banners featuring an eagle statue and many people, including children, in traditional outfits on the float.
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Cowichan Masked Dancers performing a ceremony at a potlatch.
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Memorial at a longhouse (or Hamlock’s Barn) showing dolls under a decorated blanket and two men standing on the side. (Photo taken 16 June 1910).
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Images from traveling to the United States to pick hops. Families would travel for the whole picking season, which included a variety of berries and hops.
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Salmon weir on the Cowichan River with a person walking on the weir and a canoe on the shore.
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Ruby Alphonse and Ronald Peter getting married.
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Corpus Christi procession at St. Ann Church from 14 May 1959. The participants were led by Father Demers as they marched from St. Ann Church to the school and included: school girls wearing headcoverings, a boys’ choir, followers, and special guests.
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Mrs. Fran Wall, who was a teacher at the Tiny Tots Nursery and the Adult Education Program, received a sweater knitted by Mrs. Cecelia Alphonse. The sweater was presented to Mrs. Wall by Mrs. Alec Johnny. (Published 26 June 1968).
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Image of Quamichan Lake from around 1910 featuring tule grass in the foreground and farm buildings in the background, across the lake.
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View from Cowichan River of a canoe and the bridge in Duncan. Two young children peek out from the shoreline.
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Woman wearing a beautiful mountain goat wool blanket. The photograph was taken by photographer Edward S. Curtis around 1912. Curtis took 27 photographs during his visit to the Quw’utsun’ homeland.
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A woman gathering tule on the shore. Tule was used for making mats, house-walls, capes, and sails, among other things and was predominantly a woman’s job. (Photo by Edward Curtis, c1912).
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The 1950 Tzinquaw opera cast in costume.
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Houses at the shoreline of Cowichan Bay Village.
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Man standing with dugout canoe in front of Quamichan Village. The second photo shows paddlers at the ready in a racing canoe.
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