Description

Lexwyó:qwem Smá:lt. Always Rotten Fish Mountain (no. 2). 98-P3-311 (L21 A)

Note
The brown area is usually bright green in spring and summer. Lexwyó:qwem no. 1 "is a place on Fraser River between first tunnel and Yale where rotten fish used to (always) pile up. On the CN (east) side of the river below the mountain." It was a permacultural vegetable garden, with berries, roots, wild rice, etc. The breeze brough the smell of rotten fish from the river up to the mountain.

References
Lexwyó:qwem Smá:lt - Mountain on Fraser River between first tunnel and Yale where rotten fish used to (always) pile up. On the CN (east) side of the river, literally 'place to always have/get rotten fish mountain.' Also Xwyóqwem Smált, mountain upriver from Mt. Ogilvie. lexw= always.
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 1050-1051.

Notes

Lexwxyioqewem (always smells like rotten fish)

Provenance

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