Is "lahach" a Shuswap word?

[Leanne Riding]

Off the top of my head, maybe "la vache"?

David Robertson wrote:

>In a shorthand advertisement for a fur buyer, the following kinds of furs 
>are listed:
>
>"tlus mawich skin, bivir, martin, bir, lahach, kanawi ikta tlus skin"
>
>I understand almost all of this:
>
>"good deer skin, beaver, marten, bear, LAHACH, all kinds of good furs".
>
>What's LAHACH?  Maybe it's Shuswap?  It resembles a common Chinuk Wawa 
>word that Le Jeune uses, lahash "axe / hatchet", but it seems to refer to 
>an animal.
>
>--Dave
>
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