File contains images of various First Nations Cultural groups from the Pacific Northwest. The images include negatives and slides of Northwest Coast villages, totem poles, longhouses, and First Nations peoples dressed in regalia.
Sub-series consists of photographic prints and photocopies collected from other institutions for use on object labels in MOA's Great Hall. Items were originally housed in two large binders with dividers.
File consists of photographic prints depicting Oweekeno cultural objects from other institutions. Many of the prints are annotated with handwritten, stamped, or typed information about the contents of the images or their original repositories. The contents of this file were used to create object labels for MOA Object ID A50006 in MOA's Great Hall.
Item is a photograph taken from the water of the hospital, community hall, and other buildings in Alert Bay along the shoreline with the forest in the background. Totem poles are scattered along the shoreline.
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.
Photograph of two house posts being carved in a carving shed in Alert Bay, BC. Four people, including Henry Speck, can be seen working on the poles. A child is watching.
Mungo Martin restoring a totem pole originally carved by Charlie James. The pole later stood in Totem Park at UBC before being moved to the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology.
Mungo Martin and Charles Docherty working on a totem pole. Charles Docherty, a carpenter, was hired as his assistant. The pole in the background was carved by Charlie James and was restored by Mungo Martin. It stood in Totem Park at UBC until it was moved to the Great Hall of the Museum of Anthropology.
![Top of pole, Kats Wife Totem bite [Bight], Ketchikan, Alaska](/uploads/r/null/2/d/e/2decbd7a4f7c0132e25782d0f26bc618fd89b3f9558b7044fff6a8482a3591d4/a040167c_142.jpg)
![Totem at Totem Bite [Bight], Ketchikan, Alaska](/uploads/r/null/d/2/0/d2074010380d83777835476cf2cd2583dba7470ecb6d5b88e614f42dc131cc84/a040172c_142.jpg)
![Closeup of pole at Totem Bite [Bight] Park, Ketchikan, Alaska](/uploads/r/null/c/d/4/cd4aeca50ef56ca3dd3eff40bf1a0beacf8bf4221fca2518433884ed1aeee86f/a040173c_142.jpg)
