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Image depicts a young woman wearing a white, V-neck sweater. This woman is also depicted in images a034800 and a034801.

Image depicts an elderly man standing in front a wooden structure. He wears ceremonial dress, including head gear. See also image a034813 for a front view of this man. Read's note suggests this photo may have been taken at Topley Landing on Babine Lake.

Read's handwritten journal (July 8 - August 5, 1948) of his trip from Vancouver to the Skeena River Valley and back, details the weather, road conditions, people he met, and fish caught along the way.

Read's note cards detail information about three groups of totem poles and contain text and page references to Marius Barbeau's book, Totem Poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia (published by the Canada Department of Mines and the National Museum of Canada, 1929).

Image depicts three people resting at the edge of the water. Mountains and trees across the water are also visible.

Image depicts five individuals canoeing along a river. A fishing boat is visible in the background, as are trees at the water's edge.

Image depicts a man standing on a river bank holding a long pole over the river. He appears to have caught a fish and to be bringing it in. A pile of fish sit on the riverbank.

Image depicts a river, perhaps the Skeena River, with rapidly flowing water. Evergreen trees are visible along the river banks. An individual, possibly Ruth Read, can be seen standing at the river's edge.

Image depicts a river, perhaps the Skeena River, with rapidly flowing water. Evergreen trees are visible along the river banks.

Image depicts a rural church standing in a clearing with mountains in the distance. This may be St. Paul`s Anglican Church in Kitwanga.

Image depicts a large expanse of open land with snow covered mountains in the distance. The foreground includes several tree stumps and possibly a fence..

Image depicts several totem poles erected in an open field in front of several wooden structures, possibly houses. Read's notes indicate that these poles are the Wawsemlarhae poles at Kispiox Village in the Skeena Valley.

Image depicts a totem pole from Gitsegyukla (Skeena Crossing). Read`s notes call this the Pole of Mawlarhen. Depictions of frogs and an owl are visible. See also item a03426 for another view of this pole.

Image depicts three young boys posed together with water and boats in the background. Notes indicate that this photograph may have been entered in a UBC staff photography competition in the early 1950s.

Image depicts three totem poles, standing in an open area. Read's note under this photo indicates that the pole on the left may by a Snag-of-the-Sand-Bar pole from the House of Chief Skogum Laxhe. The pole on the right may be Chief Laxhe`s Hat-of-Tsagyem-hanak Pole. See also item a034837 for a closeup of the Snag-of-the-Sand-Bar pole.

Image depicts a totem pole located in a valley with mountains in the distance. The pole is probably from the Kitwanga or Kispiox villages in the Skeena Valley. This pole features a fish on top and a series of ravens interspersed with human-like characters below that. One section of the pole is not carved.

Image depicts a totem pole that features a human figure at the base and three other human figures, aligned horizontally across the pole. Other wooden structures can be seen in the background. Read's note indicates that a possible explanation for this pole can be found in Barbeau, p. 149, which suggests that the three humans carved in this pole may be Hrpugweelan, a crest of Ksemgitgeegyaenih, a Larhsail chief.

Image depicts a close up showing the details of the lower figures on a totem pole, probably the Snag-of-the-Sand-Bar pole from the House of Chief Skogum Laxhe. The bottom figure is is the monster Hagwelawrh, who lives under the water and causes the Sand-Bar to raise with his back. See also image a034836 for another view of this pole.

Image depicts a totem pole that features three figures at the top, an animal underneath, and possibly a human at the base.