File contains correspondence between members of the Heiltsuk community and McLennan regarding the Transforming Image project. In addition are copies of photographs and descriptions of the people and events in the photographs.
File mainly contains photocopies of architectural drawings and plans of the Bella Coola house that was part of the CMC House project. Other records include a list of artists from Bella Coola who were potential candidates to work on the house, and research information.
Image of five people stading by a table with records on it. One of them is holding a microphone. More people on the background. Handwritten annotation on back "Bella Coola Treaty. Paul Willie, Al Speck, Alvin Alfred, George Speck, Alec Smith" Item was originally numbered by creator with number 112.
Image of six people standing around a table with records on it. One of them is holding a microphone. More people on the background. Handwritten annotation on back "Bella Coola Treaty. Ernest Willie, Peter Smith, Al Speck, Alvin Alfred, George Speck, Alec Smith" Item was originally numbered by creator with number 109.
Image of six people standing around a table with records on it. One of them is holding a microphone. More people on the background. Handwritten annotation on back "Bella Coola Treaty 1987" Item was originally numbered by creator with number 110.
Image is a close up photograph of four people standing around a table. One of them is holding a microphone. More people on the background. Handwritten annotation on back "Bella Coola Treaty with Qwiqwasutinuxca. (L) Bella Coola: Laurance Maru, Puglas Hall. James Sewid, Al Speck, Alvin Alfred, George Speck" Item was originally numbered by creator with number 111.
File contains images of Houstie's artwork featured in the <i>Transforming Images</i> exhibit. There are also images of Houstie working on his artwork. The textual records in this file contain photocopies on images found in this file.
The fonds consists of 66 photographic prints, some of which are hand-coloured, stamped “B.W. Leeson Quatsino, B.C.”, labelled on the front or back with explanatory information, or signed in ink. One print of a longhouse is stamped “The Leeson Collection Copyright 1914.” The photographic subject matter relates to British Columbia’s Kwakwaka'wakw First Nations and the British Columbia landscape. Also included is a copy of Portraits of the Indians of Quatsino by Benjamin W. Leeson (Kit #20) by Susan Roper, produced by the Research Project on Early B.C. Photography at the Vancouver Public Library around 1972, and 23 duplicate slides which accompany it.
