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Shang . 1921
Hazelton, B.C.
68.
? According to the game-warden here, a Mr. Franklin,
the original home-camps of these interior Indians
was the floor of Please Falls, a shallow swampy
hole directly under the south spur of Rocherelle
(Rochereau Belleisle) Bonlder Mt. I would not be surprised however if he
had [illegible] gotten it mixed up with the big Please
Falls North-east of here.
Grave-
Yard.
There are graves, small
houses without walls, and wickerwork fences, scattered
all thru' the country. And their grave yard along
the turn is a strange mixture of the old and
the new -- marble [and] granite tombstones,
with grotesque family totems carved by the stone-
cutters. Tombstones with pictures on them of
the deceased. Houses with sewing machines, and
turners in them, with mirrors instead of windows.
Intricately carved and festooned fences with
unlight graves within. All manner of blends
of Christianity and Totemism. Most of the
totems are the bear. There is however one frog,
altho as Mr. Mennie told us they hold the
frog and toad in horror as the personification
of all evil and bad luck. The little Indian
girl of the family living near us on Parry's place,
was in our cabin, when a live toad I was
keeping in a can putted his head up so she
could see it. She fled in horror, and has not
been in since, altho she never hesitates to ask
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