The WSANEC and Their Neighbours: Diamond Jenness on the Coast Salish of Vancouver Island, 1935

by Diamond Jenness

In 1935, National Museum of Canada anthropologist Diamond Jenness did several months of fieldwork with the Coast Salish peoples of southwestern Vancouver Island. His main focus was the WSANEC, then a little-known group whose reserves lay on the Saanich Peninsula, a short distance from Victoria. Here, and later in neighbouring areas, local elders shared with him their knowledge of the "old ways," a mode of living they all knew at first-hand in their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1772440361
• ISBN13: 9781772440362
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Rock's Mills Press
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"