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Group of Indigenous people in traditional regalia

Image of a large group of indigenous people wearing traditional clothing and headdresses. These include long wool headdresses and tall conical hats. These have been identified as either Nanaimo or Cowichan peoples. The photograph may have been taken by Ernest Crocker and may be held at the Royal BC Museum.

Boys Posing Outdoors

Item is a negative showing children wearing light coloured hats and holding light coloured flags posing in front of a building. Behind them appear older men without the hats or flags.

Abbot and secretaries

Item is a negative showing three men posing for the camera. The man in the centre, the abbot, is wearing an elaborate head piece and robe. The man to his left is wearing a mask. There is a building in the background.

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

Item is a photograph of three young women, and two young girls standing in ceremonial dress (button blankets; carved and painted [wolf?] mask; and headdresses made of woven cedar, weasel(?), abalone, and eagle feathers). They are gathered for an event celebrating British Columbia's centennial in Alert Bay in 1958. Daisy Neel is in the centre wearing the frontlet and her twin sisters are the young girls in front of her. Emma Sewid [Seewid; Seaweed?] and Mabel Sewid [Seewid; Seaweed?] are on either sides of them.

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