Hope Island, de Menil Collection

• Other Authors: Adelaide de Menil
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1967
• Subjects: Kwakwaka'wakw > - Housepost >; Kwakwaka'wakw > - Xwamdasbe' (Hope Island) > Housepost >; Duff; Hope Island; Smith Inlet; Hope island
• Online Access: https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-5422/hope-island-de-menil-collection

Xwamdasbe' (Humdaspe), meaning place where there is otter" is located on Hope Island off the north coast of Vancouver island. It was the principal home of the people known as the Nahwitti (the Yutlinuk, Tlatlasikwala and Nakomgilisala tribes) during the second half of the 19th century. The...