Lekwungen Ethnography and Sociology
Myth of Nemokis and the Ten Brothers
Myth of the Man Who Changed his Face
Story of Cwot, the Sister of Raven
The Kauitsen [Cowichan] or Island Halkomelem 155;
Place-names Cowichan Traditions of a Great Flood and Earthquake
Story of Tsoqelem 158; Cowichan
Account of a Great Fight Between the Salish Tribes and their Hereditary Enemies the Kwakiutl
List of Works Cited in Volume IV
Illustrations
Cartoon of Professor Charles Hill-Tout
From article “Delves Deep in History” by Noel Robinson in Vancouver Province, 23 June 1934.
Vancouver Centennial Museum photograph, “photographer probably C. Hill-Tout, from glass plate. Interior Salish.”
Cairn Near Harrison Mills, 1932
Photograph of Charles Hill-Tout. Courtesy of Clarence Wood and the Kilby Museum, Harrison Mills.
With Rev. Dr. Raley in the Old Vancouver Museum
Photograph courtesy of Anne Yandle and the Special Collections Library of the University of British Columbia.
Reproduced from Paul S. Wingert, Prehistoric Stone Sculpture of the Pacific Northwest (Portland Art Museum 1952), Plate 41.
Vancouver Archives photograph.
Stanley Park Road construction, 1888
Vancouver Archives photograph.
Cartography by Audio-Visual Centre of
Simon Fraser University.
Photograph taken during Bishop Durieu’s time, 1880's.
Courtesy Vancouver Archives.
Cartography by Audio-Visual Centre of Simon Fraser University.
Courtesy of the B.C. Provincial Museum, Victoria, B.C.: “probably taken during transfer of Old Songhees Reserve, Victoria, 1911.”
Photographed in 1938 before being removed to the Museum. Courtesy of the B.C. Provincial Museum, Victoria, B.C.
Introduction
The two ethnological reports in this volume, on the Sechelt and on the tribes around Victoria, have the same aim and pattern as those in the previous volumes of The Salish People, and do not require special introduction. Additional material is gathered here to provide insight into Charles Hill-Tout’s character and reputation; so that an assessment should now be attempted.
Marius Barbeau tells the story of a noted English anthropologist arriving in New York in the first years of this century and asking the American colleague who met him at the pier: “Where’s Hill-Tout?” This query, says Barbeau, “was often repeated with a smile among New York anthropologists as characteristic of the British point of view as to the progress of American anthropology.”1 Really, of course, American anthropology was in the hands of Franz Boas; and we have already seen (in the Introduction to volume I of the present edition) how temperamental and other differences excluded Hill-Tout from Boas’ projects and the influential hard-cover publications which attended them. The exchange of letters presented below retells the story in its own succinct way: Hill-Tout’s effusive approach; Boas’ businesslike courtesy; Hill-Tout’s damaging over-speculative reply; then silence. In contrast, Hill-Tout’s best correspondent was Andrew Lang of Balliol College, who made time for his pen-friend in the midst of “morning leaders, weekly and monthly reviews and columns, and incessant addresses, prefaces, and essays.”2 The tender solicitations of fellow folklorist E. Sidney Hartland (in a letter below) is further evidence of how far away Hill-Tout’s sympathetic audience resided. “Where’s Hill-Tout?” calls forth a rather forlorn reply.
Much of what Hill-Tout did in his life is tragi-comical if seen from an alien position. He persisted as “Professor”
