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Kwak'wala names at the mouth of the Nimpkish River

In many areas, named places were very close together. Along the shores of the Nimpkish River and Nimpkish Lake, and the ocean shore on northern Vancouver Island near the river mouth, Aboriginal people named 110 places.


Map - Mouth of the Nimpkish River - Canadian Geographic


"river behind on beach"


"land otter place"


"(logs) placed crosswise"


"body with grass"


"sunny place"


"logs laid crosswise foundation on ground"


"rock lengthwise against current; or striped rock"


"clay inside beach (?)"


"pond on rock"


"straddling on surface"


"rocks lengthwise against current"


"place of fort at end of point"


"attacking on beach (poling against strong tide ?)"


"excrement (rusty color) on rock"

 
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