Image of two Sxwayxwey dancers in a field with two persons in casual clothing, apparently to watch the ceremony. This image may have been taken by Edward S. Curtis.
Display for the exhibit "Northwest Coast themes and variations." Shows several items featuring the killer whale including a drum, two masks, two feast dishes, rattles, model totem poles, and other objects.
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."
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."
Item is a sound recording made by Potterton Productions titled Potlach People, that features the sound of potlatch whistles followed by a short talk (approximately 1.5 minutes) by artist Robert Davidson. The rest of the recording is made-up of a soundscape featuring whistles and bird calls.
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".
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".
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".
This photograph, taken by Edward S. Curtis, shows a Kwakwaka'wakw wedding party. The Bride is Abayah, who is marrying her first husband. She later married Mungo Martin.
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".