Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Traditional singing and storytelling by George Myers Part 6

132-3-B-1-MAN-027
Item
1971

Item is the sixth of eight audio recordings of George Myers of Riske Creek, British Columbia singing in the Chilcotin language, with drum accompaniment. He speaks in English in between songs about his spiritual beliefs and work as a medicine man.

Traditional singing and storytelling by George Myers Part 5

132-3-B-1-MAN-026
Item
1971

Part of MOA General Media collection

Item is the fifth of eight audio recordings of George Myers of Riske Creek, British Columbia singing in the Chilcotin language, with drum accompaniment. He speaks in English in between songs about his spiritual beliefs and work as a medicine man.

Traditional singing and storytelling by George Myers Part 4

132-3-B-1-MAN-025
Item
22 August 1971

Part of MOA General Media collection

Item is the fourth of eight audio recordings of George Myers of Rikse Creek, British Columbia singing in the Chilcotin language, with drum accompaniment. He speaks in English in between songs about his spiritual beliefs and work as a medicine man.

Traditional singing and storytelling by George Myers Part 3

132-3-B-1-MAN-042
Item
22 August 1971

Part of MOA General Media collection

Item is the third of eight audio recordings of George Myers of Riske Creek, British Columbia singing in the Chilcotin language, with drum accompaniment. He speaks in English in between songs about his spiritual beliefs and work as a medicine man.

Traditional singing and storytelling by George Myers Part 2

132-3-B-1-MAN-014
Item
1971

Part of MOA General Media collection

Item is the second of eight audio recordings of George Myers of Riske Creek, British Columbia singing in the Chilcotin language, with drum accompaniment. He speaks in English in between songs about his spiritual beliefs and work as a medicine man.

Traditional singing and storytelling by George Myers Part 1

132-3-B-1-MAN-013
Item
1971

Part of MOA General Media collection

Item is the first of eight audio recordings of George Myers of Riske Creek, British Columbia singing in the Chilcotin language, with drum accompaniment. He speaks in English in between songs about his spiritual beliefs and work as a medicine man.

Traditional houses in the mountains of New Guinea

10-a033019
Item
[1912 or 1913]

Part of A.F.R. Wollaston fonds

Image shows houses in a village in New Guinea, identified on verso of print as being houses of "pygmies."

A.F.R. Wollaston

Traditional house New Guinea

10-a033017
Item
[1912 or 1913]

Part of A.F.R. Wollaston fonds

Image shows a house identified on verso of the print as being a "pygmy" house.

A.F.R. Wollaston

Traditional Cultures in Ikirun

143-01-3
Item
1970-1971

Part of Iris and Jack Lieber collection

Traditional Culture in Ibadan

143-01-46
Item
1970-1971

Part of Iris and Jack Lieber collection

Traditional B. C. Coast Architecture

81-04-a03328
Item
[ca. 1960 - 1990]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

The Alert Bay Community House, completed in 1963. The two post arches are 17 feet high, supporting two 70 foot logs, each measuring 3 feet in diameter and weighing 5 tons. The roof has a large opening at the center to allow smoke to escape from the open pit fire. Photo by Eric J. Cooke; published by J. Barnard Photographer LTD, Victoria B. C.

[Tracing of model canoe dimensions]

12-12-01-12-01-06-a036691
Item
March 1987

Part of Ronnie Tessler fonds

Image is of a board on the ground on which tracing lines have been drawn. Tracing lines represent the outline of the model canoe.

Townsite at Port Alice

93-2018.17.27
Item
ca. 1908-1949

Part of Ben Williams Leeson collection

Written on front: " townsite at Port Alice" Written on back: "This is another view taken on the first[?]. That's the Kynse river coming down over the other side up to right to Quatsino."

Town at the head of the inlet

132-1-A-2005-001-170
Item
1952

Part of MOA General Media collection

Item is a series of two photographs showing the rooftops of houses and a totem pole in the foreground. The pole is known as the Nispiq Pole. It belonged to Chief Simon Walkus, Sr. and tells of the origins of the Wuikinuxv people.

C. MacKay

Toward Reconciliation: Teaching About Residential Schools