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Taha George

Taha George

Portrait of an older woman wearing traditional dress and headpiece. She is standing in a grassy area. Woman is Taha, wife of Chief George Slahholt of the Burrard Reserve [Coast Salish] in North Vancouver and mother of Dan George

Anthony Carter

Dancers in field

Dancers in field

Image of a group of dancers in a field, with a crowd gathered behind them watching. There appears to be about six dancers.

Anthony Carter

Fishing boats, Alert Bay (?)

Fishing boats, Alert Bay (?)

Photograph of a bay with a line of docked fishing boats. Handwritten annotations on the verso of the print read: "Straight across from our house." A stamp on the verso indicates that it was printed in 1957.

Mildred Laurie

Beaver pole, Anthony Island

Beaver pole, Anthony Island

Image of a section of a totem pole, featuring a beaver, on Anthony Island, Haida Gwaii. This appears to be a pole now housed at the Museum of Anthropology (museum item #A50013). This museum item has the following description: "Base section of a wooden totem pole, crescent shaped in cross section and carved in shallow and deep relief. Depicted is a seated beaver with one potlatch ring between erect ears; protruding upper incisors; raised forepaws and hind paws grasping chewing sticks. Below its rectangular shaped crosshatched tail is a human face with large circular eyes. Traces of blue in eye sockets and around nostrils... Beaver was one of crests owned by the lineage of Chief Ninstints (Tom Price), 'Those Born Up the Inlet', of the Eagle moiety... Remainder of pole, except top figure, burned when the village was burned in 1892 by the Koskimo and the crew of a sealing schooner. ."

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