Indian Totem, and Chiefs House at Comox. Vancouver Island.
Songhees Feast
Indian house. Songish [Songhees] Rancherie. Victoria V.I. [Vancouver Island].
Indian lodge Victoria Harbour. [Songhees village] These huts are built of slabs of cedar wood, which is durable and splits easily.
Indians encamped. Indian hut at Chapmans [Chapman's] Bar, Fraser River, Brit. Columbia. no. 47
Indian Lodge. Fraser River. B. Columbia
An Indian encampment Esquimalt Harbour [On reverse]: Indians encamped in a small cove, showing the rush mat habitation, mode of drying herrings, Chinook-shaped canoes, by the landing stage Esquimalt harbour, Vancouver Island.
Esq. [Esquimalt Harbour]
[Indicated by arrows]: Herrings drying. Hut of mats. Indian man. Indian woman in blanket. Three canoes. A cove in Esquimalt Harbour, Vancouver Island, shewing [sic] an Indian family encamped during the herring season.
Indian Potach [sic] at the Songish [Songhees] Indian Village, Victoria Harbour. V.I. [On reverse in ink ]:Indian Potlach [potlatch] or "Great Distribution Feast" at the Songish Indian village Victoria Harbour Vancouver Island. [In pencil]: When hundreds of blankets, and many....
Quatseeno Indian Village on the north west coast of Vancouver Island. [In pencil]: Vancouver Island (west coast). No. 101.
Comox [Indian village]
Comox Indian Village, north east coast Vancouver Island. No. 24
An Indian encampment on the Fraser River. Encampment of Scachett [sic] [Skagit?] Indians at New Westminster Fraser River Brit. Columbia who came to celebrate the Queens [sic] Birthday and engage in the Canoe Races on that occasion. The blurred figures of an Indian woman, and child, the first separating the childs [sic] hair whose head is resting against the womans [sic] knees, catching the lice, and cracking them between her teeth; I have seen this done very many times F. Dally.
[Crossed out] Harrison River [Replaced with] Musquiam [Musqueam]] Indians encamped at New Westminster, Fraser River. B.C. Indian woman in tent examining a childs [sic] head for live stock, and cracking the captured ones between her teeth, but moved in her efforts, which has blurred the otherwise pretty picture - a solemen [sic] fact. F. Dally.
[In pencil] Indians encamped on the Fraser River. [In ink] Harrison River Indians encamped on the Fraser River - May 24th 1869.
Harrison River Indians encamped; Indian basket cradle in front of the man standing upright; sticks and matting to form their tents; Oolachins or the candle fishes drying on sticks; the place where they had encamped was dangerous to stand about on, as for days afterwards the grey-backs (lice) were quite numerous and very hungry, as I can personally testify to, to my annoyance and disgust. Lo the poor Indian!! Have you used Pear's [Pears'] Soap? F.D.
Candle fish, on sticks drying. Harrison River Indians encamped at New Westminster, Fraser River on the Queen['s] Birthday (1868) six different abodes. Shewing [sic] on the left of the photo a number of Oolachins (or candlefish) drying in the sun, also baby in basket cradle in front of the man standing up. [On reverse]: An indian encampment on the Fraser River (Harrison River Indians) British Columbia.
The Quamichan [Hul'qumi'num] Indian village. Vancouver Island. British Columbia. Cedar plank lodges.
The Ahousett [Ahousaht ] Indian Village Clayoquot Sound Vancouver Island (west coast). No. 100
Indian huts and shelter tents amongst the pine tree stumps of "Stump City" alias New Westminster, Fraser River. B. Col. Ooolachins, or Candle Fish drying. Indian children squatting. Savage Indian who came out with his gun and threatened to shoot me if I did not clear out. [In pencil]: Indians encamped at New Westminster. No. 51
Indian Totems - and huts, and stands for drying compressed blackberries. Comox Indian Village, Vancouver Island. (The upper and second figures have dresses on them of the highest [cotton?])
Songish [Songhees] Indian Village Victoria Harbour. Vancouver Island. Brith. [sic] Columbia. 1864
The Quamichan [Hul'qumi'num] Indian Village. Vancouver Island. (East Coast.)
The entrance of an Indian house. Nanaimo
Indian monumental carvings and totems with dressed figures in front of the Chiefs lodges at Comox
Comox Indian Village [East Coast] Vancouver Island.
Peace and Plenty. Indian family and hut, 6 feet by 8 ft. where 6 adults and a family of two, reside in comfortable and affluent (indian) circumstances. Fraser River.
Fraser River. Oolachons [oolichan] drying - basket cradle - rush house for a family of eight. Candle fish. Rush mats for sleeping on, and lice to keep them awake.
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