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Sinixt on the Arrow Lakes, circa 1895

Black-and-white photograph of two Indigenous men in a canoe on the water. People in European dress are standing on the shore of the Arrow Lakes. Pelts are piled up under another canoe on the shore.

City of Vancouver Archives, reference code: AM753-S1-F2-: CVA 256-02.55, Edward Bros. Album.

Sinixt people on the Arrow Lakes, circa 1895. The Sinixt people are in the distinctive sturgeon-nosed canoe used by their nation.  A second canoe is overturned on the shore next to a pile of animal furs.