Print, Photographic

Item number 2010.P.00575 from the Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre.

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Looking Downriver from Dogwood Valley. Isolillock (Isléleqw, Tl'ítl'xeleqw) and St'ámiya
Mountains. 98 P3 685 (X31 A)

Note
In the background, Isolillock (Isléleqw, Tl'ítl'xeleqw) Mountain, Two Peaks, on the right and St'ámiya Mountain on the left are barely visible.

References
Isléleqw - Isolillock Mountain (this spelling on topographic map). This mountain is by Silver Creek on the C.N. side of the Fraser R., can be seen from Hope and above. Literally 'double-headed.' Also called Tl'ítl'xeleqw, attested by AK, ME, others.
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 122.
Tl'ítl'xeleqw - Isolillock Mountain (near Silver Creek). The double-peaked mountain by Silver Creek on the CN (south) side of the Fraser River, it can even be seen from Hope bridge and further north looking south, some Indians call it Holy Cross Mountain because of a glacier resembling an X or cross on it, it can also be seen from the north side of Highway 1 by the Husky Station at Silver Creek, literally 'little ripped on top of the head,' Elder's comment: "from tl'xát ripped apart because an iceberg came through years ago and ripped it apart, it was one mountain before that.
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 821.

St'ámiya - Hope Mountain, resembles a person lying on its back with head, breasts, and lump for male genitals at hips, when viewed from the north side, as on the Fraser River several miles above Hope, looking south, literally 'hermaphrodite.'
Brent Douglas Galloway, Dictionary of Upriver Halkomelem, Volume I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009) 716.

Provenance

Sto:lo Archives

Item History

What

Name
Print, Photographic
Identification Number
2010.P.00575
Type of Item
photograph
Overall
height 4.0 in, width 6.0 in

Where

Holding Institution
Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre

Who

Creator
Gary Fiegehen
Received from
Gary Fiegehen

When

Creation Date
during 1996

Other

Collection
Gary Fiegehen Contemporary Sto:lo Photographs
Frame Number
31A
Negative Number
X
Object Category
8: Communication Artifact
Object Sub Category
Documentary Artifact
Medium
Photographic Paper

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