Colville woman cooking salmon outside tepee, "Ceremony of tears", Kettle Falls, Washington, 1939

Description: 

Woman in dress & head scarf kneels outside a tepee as she sets salmon steak on sticks into ground by fire. Truck visible in background. Note from unidentified source:Taken during "Ceremony of tears" [the commemoration for the salmon & salmon habitat to be lost when the area was flooded by the building of the Grand Coulee Dam], ca. 1939.

Location: 
Location Description: 

United States--Washington (State)--Kettle Falls

Community: 
University of Washington Libraries, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Protocol: 
Colville Community Public Access, University of Washington Libraries Public Access
Category: 
Lifeways, Ceremony
Collections: 
American Indians of the PNW (Images)
Original Date: 
1939
Rights: 
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/; http://content.lib.washington.edu/aipnw/copyrights.html
Source: 
Mrs. A. E. Baldwin; University of Washington Libraries; Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture; Special Collections
Identifier: 
L96-90.40
Subject: 
Group portraits--Washington (State), Colville Indians--Clothing & dress, Colville Indians--Social life, Colville Indians--Women, Rites & ceremonies--Washington (State)--Kettle Falls, Salmon--Washington (State), Kettle Falls (Wash.)
Type: 
Photograph, Image
Format: 
Image/JPEG