Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Hydah [Haida] chief, Skidegate, Q.C.I.

89-a039270
Item
[1893-1911]

Parte deReverend Smith Stanley Osterhout fonds

Haida chief wearing button blanket

Hydah [Haida] Mary - [illegible] - Q.C.I. - age 105

89-a039271
Item
[1893-1911]

Parte deReverend Smith Stanley Osterhout fonds

Photograph of an elder Haida woman

Chief Henry Weah - Haida - Masset, Graham Island, BC, 1919

87-03
Item
1919

Parte deHarlan Smith collection

Gives his age as sixty seven years old and is the lighthouse keeper. Wiah Point between
Masset Inlet and Naden Harbour was named after his uncle

Skedans Mortuary Pole

86-02-a039721
Item
[1949 or 1950]

Parte deWilliam Carr fonds

Image of the original Skedans Mortuary Pole in Stanley Park. Pole carved in Skidegate in Haida Gwaii in the 1870's.

Sin título

Haida singing Reel No. 1

132-3-B-1-MAN-046
Item
April 13, 1954

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Item is an audio recording of Mrs. Susan Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Jones and Mr. Henry Young singing Haida songs, with drum accompaniment. The recording took place in Skidegate, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.

Beaver pole, Anthony Island

51-01-29-a039464
Item
1957

Parte deHarry B. Hawthorn fonds

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. ."

New pole in Old Massett, Robt. Davidson, Massett, Aug. 69

51-01-33-a035234
Item
1969

Parte deHarry B. Hawthorn fonds

Image of a totem pole in Massett, Haida Gwaii. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, and is seen just after it was raised. A crowd is still gathered for the pole raising ceremony.

Robert Davidson, '69 Natl Museum

51-01-33-a035236
Item
1969

Parte deHarry B. Hawthorn fonds

Image of Robert Davidson working on a painting in 1969. Based on the annotations on the slide ("Natl Museum'), this was possibly for the National Gallery of Canada or another one of Canada's national museums.