Seting a Fire Under Drying Racks

• Other Authors: G.F. MacDonald Collection
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Tsimshian > Gitxsan > Kitwankul > Kitwancool >; Tsimshian > Gitxsan > Gitanyow > Kitwankul > Kitwancool >; Gitanyow; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-986/seting-fire-under-drying-racks

Abel Campbell stoking fire under drying racks. The prepared berries have been spread out over a bed of salmonberry leaves. Skunk cabbage is normally used for this purpose These scenes of food processing were initiated in order to record some of the traditional food processing practices among the Gitxsan and to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers. The Book Builders of 'Ksan produced a volume on these collecting and processing practices titled Gathering what the Great Nature provided: food traditions of the Gitksan, by the people of 'Ksan.