U’Mista background and research
- 3-3-03-3-03-A
- Sub-séries
- 1973 - 2005
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of records relating to the development and opening of the U’Mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay.
U’Mista background and research
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of records relating to the development and opening of the U’Mista Cultural Centre in Alert Bay.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of articles and other information gathered as research into the Kwak’wala language and its speakers.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of alphabet sheets, teaching manuals, and educational materials produced for the U’Mista Cultural Centre
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of photographs taken of people and events in Alert Bay and surrounding Kwak’wala speaking communities. Photographs document the activities of the era such as potlatches, fishing, trapping, and activities surrounding the opening of the U’Mista Cultural Centre, and many were taken for the purpose of using them in educational language books.
Historical and research photographs
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of photographs taken of historical prints and artefacts relating to the Quileute. These were taken at a number of institutions, including Brigham Young University in Utah, the Washing State Archives in Olympia, The Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian, the Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation, the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, and the University of Washington Burke Museum.
Wakas pole raising 1987 photographs
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of photographs documenting the raising of the Wakas Pole in Stanley Park in 1987.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Contains one unpublished manuscript of a book titled Gitxsan Stories. The stories were told by Edith Gawa and recorded by Jensen.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of copies of six notebooks kept by Powell during the first two years of his work with the Haisla speaking people. Notebooks contain notes taken during interviews in Kitamaat.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of materials produced for teaching training and development during Phase 2 of the Shuswap project. Includes a Teacher’s Manual developed with the assistance of Joy Wild, teaching units, Chilcotin readers by Maria Myers (produced during this period by Jensen) and a Chilcotin alphabet sheet.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of audio cassettes and transcripts of the photo identification session involving Sue Rowley (curator of public archaeology at the Museum of Anthropology), Vickie Jensen, and Doreen Jensen (Gitxsan artist and curator). The session took place over two days, March 12, 2002 and April 9, 2002 with the goal of identifying the events and people in the photographs of Mary Johnson’s bitxw (divorce potlatch).
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of photographs in print and slide format documenting Gitxsan artists, both amateur and professional, that Jensen and Powell worked with or knew personally during their time living with the Gitxsan.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of audio recordings made as part of the research for the Musqueam and Seton Lake St̓át̓imcets (Lillooet language) materials. The Musqueam recordings mainly consist of interviews with informant Andrew Guerin on lexical and grammatical aspects of the language. The information on these recordings was used by Powell in the Musqueam language books. The St̓át̓imcets (Lillooet language) recordings are of community member Cida Link reading the St̓át̓imcets (Lillooet language) alphabet. These were done to accompany educational materials.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of photographs taken of social events and carvers connected to the Tait project, but not officially part of the project itself. Jensen was invited to a number of feasts and parties hosted by the Tait family, which she often photographed, making a gift of the pictures to the family members. At one of the parties, a family member performed a dance wearing a mask made to represent Jensen and her camera, complete with the sound of the shutter. In addition to events, Jensen met a number of artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, through her acquaintance with the Taits, and she often photographed them.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Subseries consists of materials related to Vickie Jensen's collaboration and research with the Tait family, with particular emphasis on biographical information for Norman Tait. Materials include interviews with Norman Tait on his art and personal history, Norman Tait's CV and autobiography, newspaper articles on Norman Tait's artwork, images of Norman Tait's artwork, biographical materials on Isaac Tait (Norman's son), related publications on totem poles and carving, and materials relating to Norman Tait's death.
Where the People Gather recordings
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Subseries consists of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews regarding totem poles, speakers include Norman Tait, Hope Allen Tait, Wayne Young, Robert "Chip" Tait, Howard Green, Isaac Tait, and Reva Robinson.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Native Education Centre (NEC) pole photographs
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of photographs taken by Jensen for the creation of the book Where the People Gather, which covers the creation of a pole by Norman Tait and his team over a number of months. Includes some later photographs showing changes to the pole due to ageing.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of a number of notebooks of mostly handwritten notes by Powell on the Nuu-chah-nulth language, providing the basis for the printed vocabulary, curriculum, and dictionary developed in this period.
Parte de Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds
Consists of Nuu-chah-nulth and Nitinat alphabet sheets; Our World-Our Ways: T’aat’aaqsapa Cultural Dictionary; The Nuu-chah-nulth Dictionary: Roots, Affixes & English Finder List (November 30, 1995); Nuu-chah-nulth Dictionary: Roots and Affix Files (May 1, 1995).