Pounding the Sapwood to Make Cakes

• Other Authors: G.F. MacDonald Collection
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Tsimshian > Gitxsan > Kitwankul > Kitwancool >; Tsimshian > Gitxsan > Gitanyow > Kitwankul > Kitwancool >; Edith; Gitanyow; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-1058/pounding-sapwood-make-cakes

Edith Campbell crushing the hemlock sapwood using a four-pund hammer made from a young hemlock tree. These scenes of food processing were initiated in order to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers among the Gitxsan. The Book Builders of 'Ksan produced a vo...