The Rock Painting/Xela:ls of the Tsleil-Waututh: A Historicized Coast Salish Practice
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DOI: 10.1215/00141801-4260674
Abstract: This article argues that the red-ocher paintings (pictographs) in Coast Salish Tsleil-Waututh territory in Indian Arm, British Columbia, were made around the time of contact in specific response to demographic collapse caused by smallpox. Tsleil-Waututh… read more here.
Keywords: tsleil waututh; rock painting; coast salish; waututh ... See more keywords