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Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds Haida
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Haida steambent box

File consists of photographs of a Haida steambent box. Jensen was storing the box of behalf of Seattle gallery owner Mardonna McKillop while she was securing permission to bring it into the USA. In 2005 Jensen photographed it for Andrea Laforet of the Canadian Museum of Civilisation in order to gather information about it.

Northwest Coast groups

Series consists of photographs documenting events in various communities throughout British Columbia and Washington State. These include community photographs in Mt. Currie; the Salish Linguistic Conference in Oman, Washington State; a Robert Davidson Pole Raising; coverage of NWC artifacts at the National Museum of Copenhagen in Denmark; coverage of 1992 Nuxalk Potlatch at Bella Coola for Canadian Museum of Civilization; and photographs of a Haida bentwood box.

Between working on language and education projects, Jensen was often hired by communities to document important events, such as pole-raisings, conferences and potlatches. This series consists of the photographs taken at those events.