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Item is an image of a rock formation with a tree placed horizontally in the foreground. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade.

Item is an image of a wall with pictographs with plant in the foreground. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade.

Item is an image of a wall with pictographs. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade.

Item is a close-up image of a rock with pictographs. According to annotations, image was taken by Louis Poitras.

From accompanying note, sent to Wilson Duff by Peter Williams, President of Kitwancool: "This is the recording made by Mrs. Edith Campbell, Gwas-Lam's Wife, at our meeting with the Honourable Minister of Indian Affairs Mr. Judd Buchanan in Kitwancool on the iith. day of November 1974, A.D. I present two briefs, the big one is the voice of the aborigines, the short one is the voice of the Indian citizens of Canada. The records was so small but that was the best she can do and I had to transcribe it using my own recorder. I use 3 3/4 speed and the recorder is a four tracks stereo made in Japan called 'AIWA'. The Kitwancool people are very pleased for what you have done when you were in OTTAWA." Letter dated Nov. 13, 1974.

Item is an audio recording of an interview with Percy Brown, a Haida Elder and well-known singer, about birds, animals, fish, whaling and trapping terminology on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. He is interviewed by two unidentified women. In the first half of the recording, he is asked questions about local birds, for example, partridges, puffins and sea gull, in order to determine Haida names for the birds and to determine if the birds are native to Haida Gwaii. He is asked similar questions about various types of vegetation, for example, plant roots. He also provides information about historic uses of trading and trapping in Haida Gwaii. Percy Brown is featured in the 1979 LP Songs from Masset, referenced in the publication Northern Haida Songs by John Enrico and Wendy Bross Stuart which is available in the MOA Reading Room, call number 12.7c HAI ENR.

Images of petroglyphs, landscapes, plants and animals.

Item is an image of petroglyphs. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade. Original slide includes number 24.

Item is an image of a rock with petroglyphs. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade. Original slide included numbers 33 and 6.

Item is an image of coastal area with a ship in the background. According to annotations, image was taken by Morley Raven.

Item is an image of a logging truck with buildings on the side. According to annotations, image was taken by Morley Raven.

Item is a photograph of a map drawn by D. L. Cooper on February 28, 1972.

Item is an image of a beach boulder with petroglyphs and surrounded by smaller stones, probably in a beach.

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.

File contains graphic materials depicting petroglyphs and pictographs in the coast of British Columbia. According to annotations, some of the photographs were taken by L. M. Greene.

Item is an image of a coastal area. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade in 1969.