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- Title: ha’kwush tthu sul’sul’tun’ | Using the Spidle Whorl
- Description: Woman spinning yarn at the Coast Salish village of Musqueam.
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Key information
- Time period or Date: 1915
- Theme(s): Handiwork, People,
- Location: Musqueam
- Source info (type – name): Book — Published Collection
- Photographer credit: Charles Newcombe
- Individuals identified: C’elicia
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Excerpt from the book “Images of the Likeness House”
“Charles Newcombe took two, three or four photographs of C’elicia spinning mountain goat hair at Musqueam; only two have survived. C’elicia uses a spindle stick (a tapered rod) and a whorl (the disc) to spin the hair into thick yarn. This yarn could then be used to weave a Salish blanket similar to the one she sits on.
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