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Potlatch items on display in Montréal
Part of MOA General Media collection
Items from the Museum of Anthropology including house posts, feast dishes, a bentwood box, and model totem poles, on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Potlatch items on display in Montréal
Part of MOA General Media collection
Items from the Museum of Anthropology including house posts, feast dishes, a bentwood box, and model totem poles, on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Songhees Dancing Sxwayxwey in front of a crowd near Victoria
Part of MOA General Media collection
Image shows an audience on the shoreline and the E & N train trestle watch members of the Songhees First Nation dance the Sxwayxwey for a potlatch. This photograph was likely provided by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks."
Part of MOA General Media collection
This is a photograph by Edward S. Curtis.
File consists of photographs taken during a trip to the Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands) for a pole raising by Robert Davidson. Whilst there, Dr. George MacDonald took Jensen and Powell on a side trip to an old village site.
Group portrait of processional to lake
Part of Fred Ryckman fonds
A man who may be a priest walks under a canopy. He is accompanied by four men who carry the canopy, four men carrying flags, and four women. A lake is visible behind the group as is a mountain in the distance.
Zonder titel
Part of John Mennie fonds
Item is a photograph of six unidentified females and three unidentified males posing with two wedding cakes
Part of John Mennie fonds
Item is a photograph of Gertie and Alex Hanuse, brother of Ethel Alfred. Information supplied by Elders from Alert Bay in January 2001
Part of John Mennie fonds
Item is a photograph of Alex Hanuse and Gertrude (Gertie) Hanuse (nee Martin). Married January 21, 1935 Information supplied by Elders from Alert Bay in January 2001
Part of John Mennie fonds
Item is a photograph of Alex Hanuse and Gertrude (Gertie) Hanuse (nee Martin). Married January 21, 1935 Information supplied by Elders from Alert Bay in January 2001
Part of John Mennie fonds
Item is a photograph of:
Back row from left: Alfred James (Jack) Hanuse, Mary Jane Hanuse (nee Alfred), George Alfred.
Front row: Margaret Alfred (later married Sam Hunt), Emma Hunt, Nora Alfred, Flora Hanuse. Information supplied by Elders from Alert Bay in January 2001.
Sam Hunt's wife Top row: Jack and Mary Hanuse, [unknown]
Bottom row: Margaret Hunt, Emma Silas (Hunt), Nora Alfred (Dick), [unknown]
Information supplied by William Wasden, MOA intern 2005
Part of John Mennie fonds
Item is a photograph of unidentified people at wedding party
Part of John Mennie fonds
Item is a photograph of unidentified people at wedding party
Part of John Mennie fonds
Item is a photograph of unidentified people at a wedding party
Part of James Davidson collection
Item is a photograph of a funeral procession. People wearing traditional clothing, funeral bier, and buildings appear. Reads, "Funeral."
Wally & Florentina Jolliffe(?)
Photograph of a bride and groom, standing outside in front of a line of cars. Handwritten annotations in the album in which this print was originally housed identify the couple as Wally and Florentina Jolliffe(?). A stamp on the verso of the print indicates that it was printed in 1959.
Zonder titel
Crowd at outdoor event, Alert Bay
Photograph of part of the crowd at an outdoor event, possibly a potlatch. A number of people are wearing ceremonial dress and masks.
Children and adults in ceremonial dress, Alert Bay
Photograph of a number of children and a few adults wearing ceremonial dress. They are gathered outside, possibly at a potlatch.
Photograph of a dancer by a fire at an outdoor gathering, possibly a potlatch. A crowd is gathered around the dancer.
Dancers at potlatch, Alert Bay (?)
Photograph of dancers at an indoor potlatch or other event, likely in or near Alert Bay, BC.