Gi’wa celebration feast - the paddlers.
- 50-A033463
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- [September 1986]
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Gi’wa celebration feast - the paddlers. Frank Brown on right.
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Gi’wa celebration feast - the paddlers.
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Gi’wa celebration feast - the paddlers. Frank Brown on right.
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Gi’wa Conclusion Ceremony - April Reid leads
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Gi’wa Conclusion Ceremony - clown
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Gi’wa Conclusion Ceremony - dancer with bow
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Gi’wa Conclusion Ceremony - Wawiskas hall
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Gi’wa launching ceremony - “Queen of the North” passes by.
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Gi’wa launching ceremony - David Gladstone, Frank Brown
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Gi’wa launching ceremony - Gi’wa launched! Frank Brown in stern, passing Government Dock.
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Gi’wa launching ceremony - Granny B. (Beatrice Brown)
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Gi’wa launching ceremony - Moses [Huwchitt] (David Gladstone on left)
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Gi'wa in shed at beach - Marshall Windsor
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Gi’wa in shed at beach. Marshall Windsor right foreground. Note Gi’wa sweatshirt beside unfinished paddle. Paddlers carved their own paddles .
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Gordon and Louanne Houston fonds
During their time living in Bella Bella, the Houstons took many photographs of the lives of the Heiltsuk First Nation community documenting the day-to-day lives of the Heiltsuk First Nation as well as ceremonial activities. The colour slides document the construction, painting, and launching of the Gi’wa, a Heiltsuk canoe which sailed with the Lootaas, the Haida canoe built by Bill Reid for Expo 86. Some of the slides document the welcome feast at Bella Bella in honour of the Haida crew of the Lootaas. The colour slides also document several potlatches and wedding feasts held in the community hall, and the local Sports Day parade. Slides also depict the role of the fishing in the community, such as smoking salmon and processing roe. Other photos document gravestones on a nearby cemetery island, derelict canneries, petroglyphs and pictographs, totem poles and house posts, all in or near Bella Bella.
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Gravesite across channel from Old Town
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Gravesite across channel from Old Town - grave goods
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Herring roe on branches, drying.
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Liz and Don Wilson stringing oolichaas for smoking (from Bella Coola)
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Longhouse remains – Deer Pass Narrows – corner post
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