Image of a display from the old Museum of Anthropology. Possibly for the exhibit "Northwest Coast Indian Art" but this is questionable. Shows items used for feasts.
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.
Display of several pieces of contemporary Northwest Coast art. Uncertain relation to exhibitions. May be for an exhibit entitled "Contemporary Design: Northwest Coast Motifs." A similarly titled exhibit was put on in 1953 but this image may be of a later date.
Image of a mask carved by Willie Seaweed. This image was provided to the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.
Image of a Dzunuk'wa mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.
Image of a Dzunuk'wa mask from the Museum of Anthropology. Likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.
Detail of a Dzunuk'wa mask. This image was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.
Image of a wooden mask. This image was provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.
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."
Photograph of Chief David La Tasse, a Saanich man of the Tsartlip First Nation, wearing a traditional robe and headdress. This photograph was taken by Ernest Crocker and is held at the Royal BC Museum.
Detail of a Dzunuk'wa mask. This image was likely provided to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks." Photograph was likely taken by Bill Holm.
