Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

138-03-02-05
Item
1987

Part of Paddling to Where I Stand collection

Image is a close up photograph of four people standing around a table. One of them is holding a microphone. More people on the background.
Handwritten annotation on back "Bella Coola Treaty with Qwiqwasutinuxca. (L) Bella Coola: Laurance Maru, Puglas Hall. James Sewid, Al Speck, Alvin Alfred, George Speck"
Item was originally numbered by creator with number 111.

Martine J. Reid

Ben Williams Leeson collection

93
Collection
[ca. 1908], [ca. 1972]

The fonds consists of 66 photographic prints, some of which are hand-coloured, stamped “B.W. Leeson Quatsino, B.C.”, labelled on the front or back with explanatory information, or signed in ink. One print of a longhouse is stamped “The Leeson Collection Copyright 1914.” The photographic subject matter relates to British Columbia’s Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations and the British Columbia landscape. Also included is a copy of Portraits of the Indians of Quatsino by Benjamin W. Leeson (Kit #20) by Susan Roper, produced by the Research Project on Early B.C. Photography at the Vancouver Public Library around 1972, and 23 duplicate slides which accompany it.

Ben Williams Leeson

Bentwood box

132-1-C-C-a041660
Item
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

A bentwood box by Charles Edenshaw. The museum catalogue number on the slide label is incorrect and should read A9416. This photograph may be from an exhibit at the old Museum of Anthropology dealing with Northwest coast technology.

Bentwood box

132-1-C-C-a041655
Item
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

A bentwood box by Charles Edenshaw. The museum catalogue number on the slide label is incorrect and should read A9416. This photograph may be from an exhibit at the old Museum of Anthropology dealing with Northwest coast technology.

Bentwood box

132-1-C-C-a041661
Item
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image of a bentwood box by Charles Edenshaw. This photograph may be from an exhibit at the old Museum of Anthropology dealing with Northwest coast technology.

Bentwood box

132-1-C-C-a041656
Item
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

A bentwood box by Charles Edenshaw. The museum catalogue number on the slide label is incorrect and should read A9416. This photograph may be from an exhibit at the old Museum of Anthropology dealing with Northwest coast technology.

Bentwood box

132-1-C-C-a041662
Item
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image of a bentwood box by Charles Edenshaw. This photograph may be from an exhibit at the old Museum of Anthropology dealing with Northwest coast technology.

Bentwood box on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040454
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

Bentwood box on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Norwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Bentwood box on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040574
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

Bentwood box on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Bentwood boxes, Chilkat blanket, mask, and other items on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040455
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

Bentwood boxes, Chilkat blanket, mask, and other items on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Bentwood dishes on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040470
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

Bentwood dishes on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Norwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Bessie Haizinqua, Nisga'a

25-04-10-a038462
Item
August 1970

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of Bessie Haizinqua in the old village of Aiyanch. A colour version of this image is printed on page 138 of Carter's book Abundant Rivers, with the caption: "Bessie Haizinqua - a proud young Nishga woman. Walking along the pathway through the old village of Aiyanch. She carried a bowl of bear meat; the scene was primitive and beautiful."

Anthony Carter