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Xwamdasbeʼ woman tending berry leather drying on canoe.

Sea lion house post at Xwamdasbe'.

Unknown man examining sea lion post and lintel.

Entrance of Whale House.

Xwamdasbe' man and children in the entrance of Whale House.

Young men and a child, likely the house chief and his family, posing in the mouth of Whale House at Xwamdasbe'.

Boys posing with Hamatsa initiate in the Whale House entrance at Xwamdasbe'.

This scene may represent placing the canoe of a deceased house chief within the posts of the house and draping it with new blankets. Note piles of blankets in the canoe and being worn or displayed by the men in the image. The house posts are now at the AMNH, New York.

Xwamdasbe' house model with house front painting made for the Chicago World Fair (1893), displayed here at the AMNH, New York.

Nahwitti fishing camp on Balaclava Island, Strait of Georgia, August 15, 1885.

Feast in progress at Xwamdasbe'.