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This is a picture taken by Edward S. Curtis when he visited the Quw’utsun’ mustimuhw in 1913. Ruby Peter — Sti’tum’at explains the picture in Hul’q’umi’num’.
Blue elderberry is found on southern Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia south to California. It is similar to red elderberry, but bears blue fruits covered with a whitish coating. It grows on dry to moist, fairly open, low elevation sites.
