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- Title: shni’s tthu kwam’utsun mustimuhw | People in Canoe at Quamichan Village
- Description: Two people sit in a dugout canoe on the Cowichan River in front of Quamichan Village. Many buildings in the village can be seen with Mount Tzouhalem in the background.
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Key information
- Time period or Date: 1866
- Theme(s): Villages, Canoes and Boats, Buildings
- Location: Quamichan Village
- Source info (type – name): Museum — Royal BC Museum
- Photographer credit: Frederick Dally
- Individuals identified: N/A
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This photograph was taken by Frederick Dally and is also in the Royal BC Museum and Archives collection. Of this photograph Dally wrote:
“After being at work all day I felt hungry, so I called out to the klootchmen in the canoe, Nika tikie muck-a-muck!! Ans. Kloosh. So off they paddled and brought back some dried clams strung on a withe. Which were sweet and good!! and I kept a few and brought them back to England with me.”
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