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Songhees Dancing Sxwayxwey in front of a crowd near Victoria
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Edmund James Eyres
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a041147
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1895 (Creation)
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1 photograph : col. slide ; 35 mm
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Image shows an audience on the shoreline and the E & N train trestle watch members of the Songhees First Nation dance the Sxwayxwey for a potlatch. This photograph was likely provided by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks."
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Binder 2
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Access restricted due to presence of culturally sensitive material. Consult archivist for details.