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- Title: q’e’mi’ yu qw’uyul’ush ha’kwushus tthu huy’mat-s | Dancing Girl in Costume
- Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Description: Woman dancing in traditional clothing including a feather headdress.
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- Speaker/Story Teller: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Date of recording:
- Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:
q’e’mi’ yu qw’uyul’ush ha’kwushus tthu huy’mat-s tthu slhuq’ute’ mustimuhw | Young lady doing the powwow style dancing
- hakw’ushus tthu ni’ hun’utum’ headdress.
She’s wearing a headdress. - st’i’am’stum tthu kw’uluw’ ‘i’ tthu stl’qeen ‘i’ tthu sil.
Attached to it are fur, feathers and cloth. - ni’ tl’uw’ yu st’iam’stum tth’utth’xit .
There are also beads attached. - ni’ tl’uw’ yu st’i’am’ sxuxil’ tthu s’itth’um ‘u tthu yuxwule’.
And on the dress is an eagle design. - ha’kwushus tthu shyumtun ‘uw’ kwun’els tthu stl’qeen ‘i’ tthu sil.
She’s wearing a belt and holding a feather and the fabric. - tl’uw’ yu kwun’etus kwthu tsq’ix lushaan ni’ ‘u tthu nuts’a’ t’eluw’s.
She’s holding on to a black shawl in one hand. - yu swi’wul’s tthu s’iluws tthu lushaan, p’uq’ s’iluws tthu lushaan.
The white fringe of the shawl is showing. - ha’kwushus kwthu stl’uq’shun’ ni’ ‘u tthu sxun’us.
She’s wearing mocassins on her feet.
Key information
- Time period or Date: 1986
- Theme(s): Community Celebrations, Sharing Indigenous Perspectives, Performances
- Location: TBD
- Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
- Photographer credit: Leader Staff Photo
- Individuals identified: Not Specified
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This was a story published in: the Cowichan Leader, 24 June 1986.
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