by island hopping ’13, day 2/more
A few more photos here from our visit to Quadra Island’s First Nations museum, gathering place and the spirit stones. The top image is of a totem pole next to the entrance to Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre. The others are more details of Ah-Wah-Qwa-Dzas, the gathering place.
(I am being very slow in processing all the numerous photos of our trip and in gathering my thoughts for writing here. After the initial busy-ness of catching up with things at home after our guests left, I came down with a nasty cold and bronchial infection which is slow to depart.)
October 5, 2013 in Canada and BC, Culture, Travel by Marja-Leena
I rather prefer the more subtle colours of the one you say is next to the entrance but they are all beautiful.
I’m so sorry to hear you’ve been ill, Marja-Leena. May your full recovery be swift now the worst is over.
Susan, I’m wondering how old that first pole is for it looks as if the original paint has weathered and faded. The new ones are so brilliant in comparison.
Thanks, Susan, I do hope so. My granddaughters and daughter are also sick so there’s something going around.
Get well soon and don’t worry about sorting photos etc, we shall enjoy them as and when they appear!
Marja-Leena!
Quick recovery! Just take it easy. We can look at the pictures and think of all the Indians that made the sculptures and practiced religion or called for ancestor spirits.
Those colored pilars have ornaments of your smaller whale, orca’s. I’ve sometimes seen a nature documents of them. Now it starts to be the time of the bigger whales migration again toward south.
Lucy, thank you, I do feel a bit better at last. There is so much to write about concerning the rest of our trip that I hope I can do so soon.
Ripsa, kiitos! Yes, the orcas are very much a part of the Pacific Northwest coast and important in First Nations culture and spirituality. And the great gray whale’s migration too, which starts in December, I think. I’ve been lucky to see orcas, which in fact are coming back near the Vancouver waters, but I’ve never seen the gray whale.
Get well soon!
Was hoping you were well by now! If you’re on, I hope it’s because you’re in that starting-to-be-pleasant state where you want to get out of bed and are curled up with books and pictures and blog.
Lovely to see these things. I did get to Vancouver and Victoria Island but all these more off-the-beaten-track places are wonderful to see.
Hattie, thanks, getting there, slowly.
Marly, a day at a time, bit by bit getting better but still tiring easily so I’m not doing anything strenuous. Ah, the gardening, the studio, the blog all await more than light attention. I keep hearing of others who have or had this bug and it’s a bad one. Much time is spent reading (gave up on “Wolf Hall” after a third of the way through its 600+ pages!) and watching DVDs such as the amazing BBC series “Bleak House”.
Off-the-beaten-track places were indeed where we went a for quick taste becasue of our visitors tight schedule. I want to go back with more time to explore further. So much to say when I have more energy to write….