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The Secwepemc Museum & Heritage Park is located just east of the Kamloopa Pow-Wow grounds on the Kamloops Indian Reserve# 311-355 Yellowhead Highway
Kamloops, B.C.
CANADA
V2H 1H1
For Museum & Heritage Park tour bookings, phone
(250) 828-9801 / fax (250) 372-1127
e-mail us at:
museum@secwepemc.org
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Marker for the ethnobotanical garden at the Secwepemc Museum18 January 2006
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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The Secwepemc Museum18 January 2006
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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The Secwepemc Museum is housed at 345 Yellowhead Highway and is open to public for summer season. The Museum contains many artifacts including clothing, tools, foods and more. Included also a walk through park hosting homes and plantlife of the Secwepemc.5
Secwepemc Museum information18 January 2006
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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The Secwepemc Museum includes a walkthrough Ethnobotanical Garden nurturing many of the traditional medicines and food plants of the Secwepemc people.7
Maylani Marr in a summer lodge18 January 2006
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Credits:Secwepemc museum and archives
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A summer lodge made in tipi style, this one however is made with cedar bark covering, others use tule reed matts.9
A winter pit house18 January 2006
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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The inside of a winter pit house at the Secwepemc Museum. This home would house many members of one or two large families.11
Pit houses18 January 2006
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Showing the shell and layers of how a pit house was built. In the distance you can see another larger pit house. As part of the Museum there are information panels throughout the park.13
Secwepemc Canoes1998
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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Two types of Secwepemc Canoes in the Secwepemc Museum. The bottom canoe is a dugout and the top is made of birch bark and pitch. |
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