Chief's house - Sea Monster and Whale
- 89-a039257
- Item
- [1893-1911]
Photograph of painted front of house
Chief's house - Sea Monster and Whale
Photograph of painted front of house
Part of Reverend Thomas Crosby fonds
Image depicts exterior view of Chief Wiah's Monster House and frontal house post in Masset, Haida Gwaii, B. C. In front of the house are ten seated figures. Image appears to be reproduction of a039353.
Part of Reverend Thomas Crosby fonds
Image depicts exterior view of Chief Wiah's Monster House and frontal house post with ceremonial entrance in Masset, Haida Gwaii, B. C. In front of the house are ten seated figures. Printed around the border of the image is the photographer information "PHOTOGRAPHED BY R. MAYNARD, VICTORIA, . . . B. C." Handwritten inscription on the border reads "Chief's House at Massett [sic]". Printed on the verso is the photographer information with the inscription "R. Maynard, Photographic Artist, AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS, COR. OF DOUGLAS AND JOHNSON STS., VICTORIA, B. C. -- Views of British Columbia and Vancouver Island for Sale." A handwritten inscription reads "Chief's House at Massett [sic]".
Chiefs Jacob Chiniki & Two Young Men with interpreter outside church
Part of Jean Telfer fonds
Image consists of Two Young Men looking towards the camera as he stands with Chief Jacob Chiniki. People and a distant building can be seen in the background.
Chilcotin [woman on fence by field]
Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
Image of a woman seated on a wooden fence in the Chilcotin region of BC, with a grassy field behind her and mountains in the far distance.
Part of Frederich H. Maude fonds
Photograph depicts a child wearing a baby on her back and wrapped in a blanket, likely taken somewhere in Arizona.
Part of Stanley E. Read fonds
Image depicts a child leaning against the base of a totem pole. The pole shows a human figure in profile. See also item a034828 for another view of this pole.
According to George Read, Stanley Read's son, the pole in the image is the Half Way Out pole of Delgamuukw's house; the boy is Harry Brown, whose Gitxsan name is Xsuwii 'Guus.
Child and totem pole, view two
Part of Stanley E. Read fonds
Image depicts a child leaning against the base of a totem pole. The pole shows a human figure with an open mouth. See also item a034827 for another view of this pole.
According to George Read, Stanley Read's son, the pole in the image is the Half Way Out pole of Delgamuukw's house; the boy is Harry Brown, whose Gitxsan name is Xsuwii 'Guus.
Photograph of a child with mask dancing near a fire at an outdoor event in Alert Bay, BC. A woman is walking behind the child.
Part of MOA General Media collection
Child feeling K'san door at the Museum of Anthropology. This child was likely part of a group of visually impaired children who visited the museum in April 1977.
Part of A.F.R. Wollaston fonds
Image shows a child standing in a docked canoe on the Mimika River in New Guinea.
A.F.R. Wollaston
[Child retrieves pieces of bark]
Part of Ronnie Tessler fonds
Image is of unidentified child bending down to retrieve pieces of cut/fallen cedar bark. Ron, Chip, and Isaac stand on other side of canoe log, conversing near longhouse.
Part of Robert Reford fonds
Item is an image of a child sitting on wood planks.
Part of MOA General Media collection
Child using backpack with a forehead strap at the Museum of Anthropology.
Child viewing display in Montréal
Part of MOA General Media collection
Child viewing a display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World."
Child viewing items in visible storage
Part of MOA General Media collection
Child viewing items in visible storage at the Museum of Anthropology. This child may have been associated with a program done in partnership with the British Columbia Provincial Museum.
Part of MOA General Media collection
Child wearing a frontlet. The man on the viewer's left may be Robert Davidson. The location of this photograph is uncertain.
Part of MOA General Media collection
Child wearing a mask at the Museum of Anthropology.
Part of MOA General Media collection
Child wearing a mask at the Museum of Anthropology.
Part of MOA General Media collection
Child wearing a mask at the Museum of Anthropology.