By Liz Crocker
This image is from the BC Archives. Learn more about the image here: <http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/kickwilli-hules-1907-inside-of-pit-house> .
By Liz Crocker
This image is from BC Archives. Learn more about the image here: <http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/raising-totem-pole-at-masset>
By Liz Crocker
This is an antler wedge in the Royal BC Museum collection.
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Victoria has always been a melting pot of cultures! After Victoria was established, many First Nations came from up and down the coast to work and trade. Luckily for archaeologists and historians, their presence can be seen in the archaeological record. Unearthed northern basketry indicates First Nations from up north had once lived in Victoria.
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"The background sound of the ocean is really a distorted version of the
trickling water from the university's waterfall, and the end of the
sound clip has a bicycle clip played in reverse to represent the
movement of going back in time, to a time when the style of bicycle that
the soundscape is based off of would have existed."
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"Your dreams of becoming a forest-dwelling hermit come true. It's pouring outside, so light a fire and put on a record."
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You can find these wooden floors throughout the exhibits on the third floor of the museum.
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"A walk through a damp mine. You find something that shouldn't be there."