Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

85-02
Series
[197-?]

Series consists of binders made up of photographs, quotations, background information and photocopied text from published sources. These binders were created to provide context to Koerner’s collection of Northwest Coast Indian art. These albums were compiled by Madeline Bronsdon Rowan, who was one of the curators at the Museum of Anthropology.

Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples

96-01-01-a039295
Item
[ca. 1860]

Part of Reverend Thomas Crosby fonds

Image is a posed group portrait of two men, three women, and a girl seated together on an elaborate tile floor. All people pictured are wearing blankets. In the center front of the people is a fur and a small woven basket. Photographer information printed on verso with the inscription "Mrs. R. Maynard, PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST, AND DEALER IN All KINDS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS. Stereoscopic and Large Views of British Columbia and Vancouver Island for sale. Corner of Douglas and Johnson Sts, VICTORIA, B. C."

[Northwest Coast Indigenous woman with harvest bowl, Fraser River, B. C.]

96-01-01-a039312a
Item
[ca. 1860]

Part of Reverend Thomas Crosby fonds

Image is alternate view of a039312. Image is a posed portrait of a seated woman in a shawl holding a pan that appears to be full of some kind of grain. The woman wears what appears to be a woven willow clam basket on her back for harvesting shellfish. Handwritten inscription on the verso reads "Indian woman Frasher river B. C."

[Northwest Coast Indigenous woman with harvest bowl, Fraser River, B. C. (three-quarter view)]

96-01-01-a039311a
Item
[ca. 1860]

Part of Reverend Thomas Crosby fonds

Image is a posed portrait of a seated woman in a shawl holding a pan that appears to be full of some kind of grain. The woman wears what appears to be a woven willow clam basket on her back for harvesting shellfish. Handwritten inscription on the verso reads "Indian woman Frasher river B. C."

Nuu-chah-nulth

1-4-C-12 (66.5)
File
[199-?]

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

File contains historical images of Nuu-chah-nulth villages and peoples. There is a focus on totem poles and canoes. There are also photographs of a pole raising ceremony to commemorate the visit of Governor General Willingdon who came to Tofino/Ucluelet in the 1920s. There are images of James Rush, Chief Miste Laabats Hamtsiid, and Chief Joseph John, dressed in Nuu-chah-nulth regalia.

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