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| BC Archives d-05075 |
This photograph reportedly came to the BC Archives as a part of a collection of logging photos, presumably collected by someone working in the Forest Industry. Notes from the archives tell that this is a photo of Kyodi (Chief Webber) in 1959, seated in front of his house in Kingcome Village with three men wearing traditional regalia. During this period the number of Indigenous people in BC actively practicing their traditional culture had been greatly reduced due to sickness, residential schools, and Indian Act laws which prohibited gatherings related to potlatching.
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