Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Jimmie John's carvings

25-03-04-a037855
Item
1968

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a carving of a winged creature by Nootka carver Jimmie John.

Anthony Carter

Jimmie John's carvings

25-03-04-a037853
Item
1968

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a carving by Nootka carver Jimmie John. The carving is a replica of the famous Chief Maquinna mask

Anthony Carter

Jimmie John's carvings

25-03-04-a037862
Item
1968

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of two of carvings by Jimmie John. A similar image is pictured on page 97 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "Jimmie John, one of the best of the Nootka carvers, shown here displaying a piece of his work, a replica of the famous Chief Maquinna mask."

Anthony Carter

Killer whale mask

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Item
[ca. 1965 - 1970]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a frontal view of a killer whale mask. A distinguishing feature is the long fin that rises from the top of the mask.

Killer whale mask, disassembled

92-2-a034616
Item
[ca. 1965 - 1970]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a disassembled killer whale mask. The fin is not yet attached to the face.

Killer whale mask, side view

92-2-a034615
Item
[ca. 1965 - 1970]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a side view of a killer whale mask. A distinguishing feature is the long fin that rises from the top of the mask.

Masks and small canoe carving displayed on table

51-01-28-a039404
Item
1955 or 1956

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Massive Carving Gallery, Montreal

51-01-36-a039849
Item
[1969]

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Image of carvings, likely on display at the Man and His World exhibition at the site of the Expo 67 in Montreal.

Memorial carving for a chief

94-a034850
Item
1948

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts a carving (possibly concrete) of a fish-like creature with a dorsal fin, mounted on stone. The inscription reads CHIEF WIEAHAKYSOU (?) Died Mar 1912 Aged 70 years.

Model, B. Reid, Raven and Clam myth

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Item
1970 or later

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Image of Bill Reid's small boxwood sculpture "The Raven Discovering Mankind in a Clam Shell," which he completed in 1970. He was later commissioned to make a much larger version of this sculpture for the Museum of Anthropology, which he titled "The Raven and the First Men."