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Musqueam encampment on Fraser River

Item consists of a photograph of Musqueam camp on the bank of the Fraser River. Additional explanatory notes are included in the caption of this photograph in Dally album 5 (MS-3100.5): "Native woman examining a child's head (which moved) for native runners and immolating them when found between her teeth. Mosqueem [Musqueam] Indian encampment on the Fraser River. Queens Birthday Visitors 1865." The 1865 date appears in Dally's hand in the album caption, however it may be incorrect; Dally visited New Westminster in 1867.

Sheeshat's [sic] (men)

Item consists of a studio photograph of six Tseshaht men, near Clayoquot Sound. The photograph may have been taken in 1866 when Frederick Dally participated in a tour of Indigenous communities around Vancouver Island aboard the H.M.S. Scout.

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