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".
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."
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.