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Item is an image of a woman and two girls by a house. The woman and one of the girls are standing, the other girl is sitting. The porch and the girl standing seem to be the same from item a032700_1

Item is a photograph showing a woman and two children kneeling in front of screens. They are wearing ceremonial dress. Possibly by photographer Ogawa Kazumasa

Image depicts a woman wearing regalia carrying a drum and mallet. The drum is painted with an image that may be an eagle.

Photograph of a woman, baby, small child, and dog in front of what appears to be a mud building with corrugated steel roof somewhere in northern Ethiopia.

Item is a glass lantern slide of a woman, two children, and a dog in front of a house. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken at Elkhorn (Washakada) Residential School. The Elkhorn Residential School started as the Washakada Home for Girls and the Kasota Home for Boys were established in the village of Elkhorn, MB in 1888. Following a fire, the school was rebuilt outside the town in 1895. Ongoing financial problems led to a government takeover of the school. It was closed in 1918 but reopened in 1923, under the administration of the Anglican Church’s Missionary Society. Many students came from northern Manitoba. The leaders of The Pas Indian Band made a number of complaints about the conditions at the school, which was eventually closed in 1949. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Image of carved house posts at the Mamalilikulla village, Village Island. The post is now lying in the grass.

A wolf headdress. These were used as temporary grave markers to indicate a memorial potlatch was being planned.

Image of a drum with a wolf painted on it.

Image of a drum with a wolf painted on it.

Wolf dish carved by Bill Reid while he was in Montréal.