Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Kwakiutl, top of eagle crest pole, Totem Park, UBC, Vancouver

134-a040101c
Item
7 Aug. 1972

One of a pair purchased in 1947 from collectors Marius Barbeau and Arthur Price. Collected from Alert Bay. The piece was repainted and repaired (including the replacement of the wings) by Ellen Neel (1949) and by Mungo Martin (1950-51).

Kwakwaka'wakw

1-4-C-2 (61.2-5; 62.1-4)
File
[199-?]

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

File contains a combination of images of Kwakwaka'wakw artifacts housed in various museums and images of historical Kwakwaka'wakw villages on Vancouver Island and along the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. Artifacts include totem poles, bentwood boxes, carvings, masks, and Kwakwaka'wakw artwork such as paintings and drawings. There are historical photographs of the following villages: Gwat'sinuxw (Quatsino), Kwikwasutinuxw (Gilford Island), A'wa'etlala Village (Knight's Inlet), Mamalikala (Village Island), Wiwekalu Village of T'la'mataxw (Campbell River), Kwixa Village (Salmon River), Dunaxda'xw Village (New Vancouver), and Gwa'sala Village (Smith Inlet). The textual records include information about some of the photographs, identifying items such as the people, the villages, and/or the artifacts depicted in the photographs.

Kwakwakw’wakw house frame

25-05-12-a038561
Item
February 1970

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of Kwakiutl House Frontal Totem Poles when they stood at UBC's Totem Park. The poles are now part of MOA's collection, but are not on display.

Anthony Carter

Kwakwakw’wakw house frame

25-05-12-a038563
Item
February 1970

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of Kwakiutl House Frontal Totem Poles when they stood at UBC's Totem Park. The poles are now part of MOA's collection, but are not on display.

Anthony Carter

Kwakwakw’wakw house frame

25-05-12-a038564
Item
February 1970

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of Kwakiutl House Frontal Totem Poles when they stood at UBC's Totem Park. The poles are now part of MOA's collection, but are not on display.

Anthony Carter

Kyan pole at head of Main Street, Ketchikan, Alaska

134-a040180c
Item
19 Aug. 1972

Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds

Last pole at Aiyansh on Nass [River]

51-01-30-a035208
Item
[194- or 195-?]

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Pole is largely uncarved, except for a bird perched on top. Mountains are visible in the background.

Leaning totem pole in front of house

51-01-28-a039440
Item

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Lilo Berliner fonds

145
Fonds
Nov. 1968 - 1975

Fonds consists of negative images of petroglyphs largely from the Pacific west coast of North America. Most of the images are from sites located in British Columbia, but there are also images from sites in Washington State, New Mexico, and other areas of the United States and Mexico. There are also images of artifacts, masks, totem poles, wood carvings, and graveyards. Images of family travels, landscapes, wild animals, and house cats are interspersed within the collection.

Lilo Berliner

Looking at Totem Poles

122-01-F
Subseries
[1980 - 1998]

Part of Hilary Stewart fonds

Subseries consists of material related to teh production of Stewart's book Looking at Totem Poles, first published in 1993.

L-R, Raven pole #24, Dogfish pole #23, secretary of state pole #27, Saxman Park, Ketchikan, Alaska

134-a040155c
Item
16 Aug. 1972

Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds

Main Street in Alert Bay

Part of Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of a street with five totems. According to annotations, photograph was taken in Alert Bay.

Making a rubbing of a totem pole carving, view one

92-1-a034525
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Doug Cranmer making a rubbing image (using kraft paper and crayon) of the carving on a totem pole. Another person, possibly Godfrey Hunt, assists by holding the paper.