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Preparing salmon for drying

A close-up image of a person slicing a fish, a bucket filled with salmon roe eggs near by. According to the documentation included with the filmstrip, the description of the image states "Salmon eggs can be eaten fresh or left to ferment and turn black before being eaten. Chris Jules is removing the backbone and laying the salmon flat, ready for smoking."

Smoke house with salmon

A image from an inside smoke house with hanging pieces of fish on the racks. According to the documentation included with the filmstrip, the description of the image states "Inside the Jules' smoke house the salmon are held apart by small cedar sticks and suspended from ceiling. The Jules' children keep the alder fires smoking for three to five days."

Digging for clams

An image of four children holding buckets filled with clam shells and a large shovel on a beach. According to the documentation included with the filmstrip, the description of the image states "Val Hansen, Gina Sutherland, and Leo and Lavigne Jack show us the clams they have just dug. Several good clam beaches are within a five minute boat ride of Kyuquot. Clams are plentiful; at low tide you can rake a bucketful in a few minutes." An image of four children on a beach holding buckets filled with clams.

Enjoying Clam Chowder

An image of adults and children sitting and eating at a table. According to the documentation included in the collection, the description of the image states "Everyone in the family enjoys Gina's clam chowder."

Starfish

A close-up image of a person holding a number of sea stars. According to the documentation included with the filmstrip, the description of the image states "Janet has found some starfish."

Raven Mask

An image of a child holding a traditional First Nation mask. According to the documentation included with the filmstrip, the description of the image states "Sheila Jules operates the mouth in a decorative Raven mask hanging in her home."

The harbour seal, "Charlie"

A close-up image of a harbor seal on a wharf. According to the documentation included with the filmstrip, the description of the image states " Meet Charlie, a harbor seal, who lives in our cove. Charlie is eleven years old now, but she was a baby when this slide was taken. She was brought into the cove by seal hunters who had killed her mother. A local family adopted and raised Charlie, feeding her with a baby bottle until she was able to catch her own food. She lives year round in the cove, suns herself on our wharfs, and plays with the local children. Sometimes she sneaks into a fish camp and helps herself to a choice salmon. Everyone in Kyuquot loves Charlie."

Diesel fuel for "Betsy"

An image of two men on a boat, one man wearing a red helmet pushes a barrel while the other man stands near by, yawning. According to the documentation included with the filmstrip, the description of the image states "Mark Sutherland yawns as Frankie Short rolls a barrel of diesel off the Betsy. The fuel will be used to run the generator."

Scuba Diver

An image of a man in a diver wet suit, wearing googles and oxygen tank. According to the documentation included with the filmstrip, the description of the image states "Tony will untangle a roap wrapped around a fish boat propeller."

Made by

An image of a drawing by the Kyuquot Elementary School children titled "Made by F.+W. Stocks Kyuquot B.C. 1976 with the help of the people of Kyuquot."

House posts and beam, Quatsino, BC

Image of the houseposts and beam of what once was a longhouse in Quatsino, BC, on the north end of Vancouver Island. These posts appear to be the same as posts now houses at the Museum of Anthropology (museum item number A50009 a-c). The poles are described on the museum's catalogue: "Two upright posts and crossbeam that were part of a large interior house frame (also see records d-f and g-h). The uprights depict sea lions carved in high relief and painted (parts a-b). Their heads are equal size to their bodies. Both part a and b have an eagle in profile within the sea lions front flippers. Part a has a top portion of a face painted on the back of its head that is part of a sisiutl that runs down the seal lions back and into its hind flipper with a serpent's head in each. The cross-beam (part c) is painted and carved as a supernatural double-headed sea lion. All parts are painted black and white with Northwest Coast stylized forms... The Klix'ken (sea lion) House was commissioned by Tza'kyius around 1906, and was the last old style house erected in Xwatis. The beams and figures stood as part of a house frame, and acted as structural supports. Figures represented on house frames were supernatural beings which the family living in the house had the right, through their history and origins, to represent."

Totem pole, Ehattesaht, Esperanza Inlet

Image of a totem pole at the Ehahsitaht Village site. A similar image is printed on page 117 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "From the cliff above the village site of Ehahsitaht the figures of this solitary totem look out on Esperanza Inlet."

Anthony Carter

Cowichan salmon weir

Image of a salmon weir on the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island. The weir is seen from a slight distance up or down the river.

Anthony Carter

Cowichan salmon weir

mage of three individuals standing on the platform of a fishing weir on the Cowichan River, holding spears. A similar image is printed on page 15 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "Salmon weir on the Cowichan river, the native people continue a very ancient form of spear fishing for migrating salmon. The weir is not a trap but merely a means to slow the fish on the way up the river."

Anthony Carter

Women in canoe

Image of two women in a canoe near the shoreline. The canoe is loaded with baskets and sacks.

Anthony Carter

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