Those who love Gabriola petroglyphs had best head over to Northwest Coast Archaeology to read qmackie’s latest blog post: Adams on Gabriola Petroglyphs. It begins:
One recent M.A. thesis I was really looking forward to reading is by Amanda Adams entitled Visions cast on stone : a stylistic analysis of the petroglyphs of Gabriola Island, B.C., [...]
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Oh my, I’ve got lots more petroglyphs to show you! And other things too. No time tonight, though, but I thought I’d at least post a preview photo for you before going off to bed.
I’ll try to post more petroglyph photos soon, as well as blog entries for all the things I’ve been meaning to [...]
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Here’s another one of Gabriola’s petroglyphs. What animal do you think it represents?
It looks like a cheery dog to me, and I know that the Snuneymuxw did keep dogs… so?
On the other hand, it’s not like I know much about Snuneymuxw rock art, so somebody else is bound to have a better answer.
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Here’s an article from The Tyee about a revival of First Nations’ staple foods. The article summary: Women are leading a revival of First Nations’ staple foods. To get lucky, you have to get mucky. I’ve never heard of wapato (it’s mentioned in the article) before — have you? But the article does mention [...]
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Recently I happened across a few posts about Gabriola on the Northwest Coast Archaeology blog. In this post about Gabriola petroglyphs the writer notes:
I must comment on the destructive practice of rubbing, not so much through cloth but the scraping of the lines to remove weathering patina and lichen in order to take clearer photographs. [...]
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Gabriola is part of the traditional lands of the Snuneymuxw First Nation (Nanaimo Coast Salish), so I’m always interested when the Snuneymuxw are mentioned in the press. The most recent news article is this one from the Nanaimo Daily News. It quotes the new Snuneymuxw chief, Doug White:
White said Dec. 23 marks the 155th anniversary [...]
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On Gabriola, what can compare to rose hips for cheery winter colour?
Rose hips are useful as food, too. They’re very high in vitamin C, and can be used in all kinds of recipes.
Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples notes that the Vancouver Island Salish ate the outer rind of rose hips. Edible and Medicinal Plants [...]
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We’ve got lots of petroglyphs on Gabriola; this is one a friend pointed out in the woods last week.
I’m glad we have all those petroglyph reproductions at the Gabriola Museum, but it’s way more fun to come across a real petroglyph in the middle of the forest somewhere.
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I’m reading Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada’s West Coast. It’s fascinating beyond belief. Here’s what the back-of-the-book blurb says:
Pre-contact West Coast aboriginal peoples are commonly categorized in anthropological literature as hunter-gatherers. Author, coastal traveller and historical researcher Judith Williams proposes that they cultivated butter clams in a walled sea gardens that may be unique [...]
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