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Banner photo: Le'tsus open weave basket. This basket is woven to hold clams or other seafood, the open weave allowing contents to be washed and drained while in the basket. This basket is make out of xpeyts'us (narrow branches of cedar) and sluwi' (cedar inner bark). Photo by Gary Fiegehen, object A2358 courtesy of the Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

Small photo: Koksilah, 1938. Royal BC Museum Photographic Collections, PM 17592.

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Banner photo: S'unum is traditonally made of t'hum'unu' (bone) and the rope attached is made of sthulq'ul'shutun (cedar bark). This particular harpoon, made of metal and horn, is from the Peneluxutth (Penelakut) Tribe, was collected in 1912.

Small photo: River Salmon Weir. Royal BC Museum Photographic Collections, PN 1380.

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Banner photo: Sh'umtun is a burden strap or tumpline generally used as a tying device. This particular burden strap was collected before 1950 in Duncan. Sh'umtun tied baskets or bundles of cedar to the waist, and the woven band is worn against the forehead. It was used when both hands were busy carrying out other tasks. Men also used these straps for packing deer meat home, and as gun straps. Traditionally, Coast Salish weaving methods include tight weaving using a xpey lhtsi'mun (cedar comb) to push stitches together so that it will not break. Photo by Gary Fiegehen, object Nbz794 courtesy of the Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

Small photo: Coast Salish Delegation to King Edward VII, 11906. Royal BC Museum Photographic Collections, PN 9692.

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Banner photo: Teyuwulh is a canoe used in competitive traditional canoe races. This particular one is a model of an eleven-man racing canoe. The head of the canoe deptics a carving of a bird head typical of the animal or bird motifs found on racing canoes. The bow of this canoe is painted yellow, showing the colours of its canoe club. Photo by Gary Fiegehen, object 9008, courtesy of the Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

Small photo: Coast Salish Canoe Races at the Gorge. Royal BC Museum Photographic Collections, PN 8950.

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Banner photo: Xe'lew is a carved spoon or ladle. Ladles have long been used in Coast Salish feasting, and are carved from horn or wood. This one is carved from cow's horn. Photo by Gary Fiegehen, object A8109 courtesy of the Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

Small photo: Quamichan Potlatch, 1912. Royal BC Museum Photographic Collections, PN 1401.

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Small photo: Penelakut Members, 1913. Royal BC Museum Photographic Collections, PN 12354.

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Banner photo: Puthtun (net needle) is a needle used to mend a net. They were carved of wood in several different sizes, depending on the size of the mesh of the net. Twine - once made of roots or fibres and more recently commonly cotton or nylon - was wrapped around the inside of the needle, which acted as a kind of shuttle for weaving the net. Photo by Gary Fiegehen, object A5320a-b courtesy of the Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver, Canada.

Small photo: Kulleet Bay Big Houses. Royal BC Museum Photographic Collections, PN 5962.

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The sul'sul'tun (spindle whorl) is used in traditional Coast Salish weaving to spin and ply wool into yarn. The spindle whorl illustrates carvings of two ste'elhtun (salmon) below and above the sxwuxw'a'us (tunderbird) located in the middle, legendary figures from Hul'qumi'num oral tradition. Photo by Gary Fiegehen, object 10352, courtesy of Royal BC Museum, Victoria, Canada.