Feature Type: | Former First Nation Village - A place formerly inhabited by First Nations' people, with no current population or that is usually uninhabited. |
Status: |
Not official
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Relative Location: |
N side Knight Inlet, E of Hoeya Sound, Range 1 Coast Land District |
Latitude-Longitude: |
50°40'44"N, 125°53'05"W at the approximate population centre of this feature. |
Datum: |
WGS84 |
NTS Map: |
92K/12 |
Origin Notes and History:
Translation: "seaweed body". The name has also been written Lekwe't and t'lakwitan. This old village site was a fishing and trapping base for the Mamalilikulla.
Source: Museum at Campbell River (spring 2001)
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Published references to this site (including maps): Boas, Franz, "Geographical Names of the Kwakiutl Indians" Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology 20, New York, 1934 (map 15/63); and Galois, Robert, "Kwakwaka'wakw Settlements, 1775 - 1920: A geographical analysis and Gazeteer" UBC Press, Vancouver, 1994 (map Ma 13).
Source: Museum at Campbell River (spring 2001)
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