Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Two men recovering a house post from SG̱ang Gwaay (Anthony Island)

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[1957?]

Two men recovering a house post from SG̱ang Gwaay (Anthony Island). This work was part of the "Ninstints Expedition" to recover eleven totem poles from the area.

Potlatch items on display in Montréal

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1969 or 1970

Parte de MOA General Media collection

Items from the Museum of Anthropology including house posts, feast dishes, a bentwood box, and model totem poles, on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Potlatch items on display in Montréal

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1969 or 1970

Parte de MOA General Media collection

Items from the Museum of Anthropology including house posts, feast dishes, a bentwood box, and model totem poles, on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Building rooftops

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[?]

Parte de Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing a close up of the architectural details on the rooftops of buildings.

People gathered outside of building

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[?]

Parte de Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing people gathered outside of a large buildings on a cobble stone street.

Charles Edenshaw in prov. museum

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1863

Parte de Reverend Thomas Crosby fonds

Image is portrait of Charles Edenshaw leaning on frontal house post in Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, B. C. Inscribed on the image is "Indian Totem Poles at Skidegate Q. C. I." Handwritten inscription below the image reads "R. Maynard, Artist". Handwritten inscription on the verso reads "Charles Edenshaw in prov. museum." Printed on the verso Is the photographer information in the inscription "R. MAYNARD, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST and Dealer in All Kinds of Photographic Materials. Stereoscopic and Large Views of British Columbia and Vancouver Island for Sale. Cor. Douglas & Johnson Streets, Victoria, B. C."

House post on display in the Museum of Anthropology

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1976?

Parte de MOA General Media collection

A house post on display in the Museum of Anthropology.

Kats and she-grisly in display case

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1963

Parte de MOA General Media collection

Image of a carving called Kats and she-grisly, in a display case. According to a description in the book Monuemt sof Cedar, by Edward Keithahn, this sculpture "formely stood above the entrance of the Brown Bear House (Hoothc Hit) in Yakutat. Whenever a Potlatch was to be held in this house, the crest would be displayed out-of-doors above the doorway." (p. 15).