St. Michael's School, Alert Bay, B.C.
Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds
Item is a photograph with a perforated edge depicting the entrance to the St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay, which was founded in 1929 by the Anglican Church of Canada. Two painted totem poles are visible in front of the school, with thunderbird, [grizzly bear?], and copper figures.
St. Michael's Indian Residential School, Alert Bay
Photograph of St. Michael's Indian Residential School, which stood in Alert Bay, BC until its demolition in 2015. This image shows the exterior and two thunderbird poles that stood at the entrance.
St. Michael's Indian Residential School, Alert Bay
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay. A similar image is printed on page 35 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "Two fine old carved columns stand guard in front of the school."
Anthony Carter
St. Michael's Indian Residential School, Alert Bay
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay. A similar image is printed on page 35 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "Two fine old carved columns stand guard in front of the school."
Anthony Carter
Three large totem poles with a building and forest in the background
Skidegate totem pole on residential street
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a shorter totem pole located on a sidewalk on what appears to be a residential street.
Anthony Carter
Skidegate totem pole on residential street
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a shorter totem pole located on a sidewalk on what appears to be a residential street.
Anthony Carter
Image of Bill Reid carving a wooden sculpture. Carving tools are visible on top of the sculpture.
Image of Bill Reid carving a wooden sculpture with a chisel.
Part of Stanley E. Read fonds
Image depicts a totem pole from Gitsegyukla (Skeena Crossing). Read`s notes call this the Pole of Mawlarhen. Depictions of frogs and an owl are visible. See also item a03426 for another view of this pole.
Part of William Carr fonds
Image of the original Skedans Mortuary Pole in Stanley Park. Pole carved in Skidegate in Haida Gwaii in the 1870's.
William Carr
Part of MOA General Media collection
Grizzly Bear house frontal totem pole being worked on by members of the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee. This pole was removed from Skedans and is now housed at the Museum of Anthropology.
Part of Stanley E. Read fonds
Image depicts several totem poles erected in an open field in front of several wooden structures, possibly houses. Read's notes indicate that these poles are the Wawsemlarhae poles at Kispiox Village in the Skeena Valley.
School group at the Museum of Anthropology
Part of MOA General Media collection
School group in the foyer at the Museum of Anthropology.
School group at the Museum of Anthropology
Part of MOA General Media collection
School group in the foyer at the Museum of Anthropology.
School group at the Museum of Anthropology
Part of MOA General Media collection
School group at the Museum of Anthropology.
School group at the Museum of Anthropology
Part of MOA General Media collection
School group at the Museum of Anthropology.
Sam Johnson, carver, with one of his totem poles, Gwayasdums
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a totem pole and its carver, Sam Johnson of Gilford Island. The pole depicts the Eagle and "Tzonqua."
Anthony Carter
Robert Davidson (?) at Massett 1969
Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
Image of a man (likely Robert Davidson) next to a totem pole in Massett, Haida Gwaii.
Rivers Inlet, ubis village site
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of part of a totem pole from ubis village site (?), on the coast of British Columbia.
Anthony Carter