Print, Photographic Item Number: 2010.P.00222 from the Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
Description
Alhqá:yem, "place of snakes."
Description
A healer woman challenged Xexá:ls, losing the contest. Therefore, Xexá:ls transformed her in stone. Because her spirit power derived from the snakes, she was transformed into a rock that resemble a giant serpent. The coils of the snake are visible. Stullawheets Indian Reserve No. 8 (Choate) is on the right.
References
Alhqá:yem - A snake rock in the Fraser River just north of Strawberry Island which had snakes sunning themselves and covering the rock; also the name of the village on Strawberry Island.
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 9.
Provenance
Sto:lo Archives
Item History
- Made by Gary Fiegehen during 1996
- Received from Gary Fiegehen
What
- Name
- Print, Photographic
- Identification Number
- 2010.P.00222
- Type of Item
- photograph
- Overall
- height 4.0 in, width 6.0 in
Who
- Creator
- Gary Fiegehen
- Received from
- Gary Fiegehen
Where
- Holding Institution
- Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre
When
- Creation Date
- during 1996
Other
- Collection
- Gary Fiegehen Contemporary Sto:lo Photographs
- Frame Number
- 20A
- Negative Number
- L
- Event
- Place Names Tour
- Object Category
- 8: Communication Artifact
- Object Sub Category
- Documentary Artifact
- Medium
- Photographic Paper
- Subjects
- Place names--Sto:lo Alhqa:yem