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- Title: q’eptum’ ’u tthey’ telu hwnem’ ’u tthu sts’inukw’a Community Centre | Fundraising for the Tzinaqua Cultural Centre
- Title spoken by: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Description: Lt.-Gov. G. R. Pearkes, also known as Chieftan Syul-lutz-ah, and his wife attended a dancing ceremony in support of raising money for a Tzinquah Cowichan Indian Cultural and Recreational Centre.
(Published 15 March 1967).
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- Speaker/Story Teller: Pul-hwuletse’ | Wayne Charlie
- Date of recording:
- Listen to the recording in Hul’q’umi’num’:
q’eptum’ ’u tthey’ telu hwnem’ ’u tthu sts’inukw’a Community Centre | Funding raising for the Tzinaqua Community Centre.
- ni’ yuhw yu ha’kwushum’ nilh sxwuyxwi’ kwus hwiwshum tthu na’nuts’a’ kwusulh yu q’petssum hwnem’ ‘u tthu sts’inukw’a Community Centre.
They are using the masked dancers to bring forward a person because of the fund raising for the Sts’inukw’a’ Cultural Center. - nilh kwu’elh tthu Lt. Gov. G. R. Pearkes ni’ tl’uw’ yu sq’uq’astum’ ‘u tthu syaays kwsusulh yu q’eptum’ ‘u tthey’ telu hwnem’ ‘u tthu Tzinquah Cowichan Indian Cultural and Recreational Centre.
It is Lt. Gov. G. R. Pearkes that is being hosted for the work of collecting money to go toward the Tzinquah Cowichan Indian Cultural and Recreational Centre.
Key information
- Time period or Date: 1967
- Theme(s): Potlatch/Ceremonies, Government (BC Canada),
- Location: Tzouhalem Hotel in Duncan
- Source info (type – name): Newspaper — Cowichan Leader
- Photographer credit: Alfred Flett
- Individuals identified: Lt.-Gov. G. R. Pearkes and his wife, with Cowichan Masked Dancers. Abel Joe was a dancer at the event (not pictured).
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