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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".

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".

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".

An image of the backdrop and a few items from the potlatch display done by the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

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".

This photograph, originally taken by William or Jean Halliday, shows a display of items to be given away at a potlatch in Alert Bay. The caption for the slide gives the date as 1910 but the BC Archives lists the date for this photograph as between 1897 and 1933. This photograph is housed at the BC Archives, #H-03976.

Joe David and his daughter are in front of the canoe log. The little girl appears tucked under her father's button blanket.
Norman Tait stands at the left of image holding one of the canoe paddles.