Category: Sti’tuma’t | Ruby Peter (Kwa’mutsun Elder)
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Potlatch at Somenos featuring a canoe behind a tall blanket. Everyone in the image is watching as Masked Dancers appear.
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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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Restoration of the Stone “Butter” Church on Comiaken Hill in 1957.
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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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Salmon weir on the Cowichan River with a person walking on the weir and a canoe on the shore.
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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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