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General Salish

This file contains images of Coast Salish and Kwakwaka'wakw artifacts. Many of the photos are official photographs taken by various museums in Canada and the United States, but others are historical photos. These artifacts include masks, rattles, carvings, fishing equipment and fish processing, canoes, and North Coast architecture, such as long houses and house posts.

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

File consists of correspondence from 1966 and 1967 between Wilson Duff and K.O.L. Burridge, of the Pitt Rivers Museum, regarding Haida potlatch masks. Included is correspondence from 1902 between Franz Boas and E.B. Tylor, which notes a discussion between Charles Edenshaw and John Swanton. The file also consists of b&w photos of the masks and the article "The Haidas," from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, dated June-November 1882.

MOA Magazine, Issue 04, Fall 2017

This issue contains articles on current and upcoming exhibitions, renovations, the installation of murals at BC Children's Hospital, Amazonia: The Rights of Nature and related student workshops and forensic work, a Musqueam Teaching Kit, the Native Youth Program's night sky project, the Rachel and David Herman Collection of Byzantine Coins, the Museum of Lisbon exhibition From Carnival to Lucha Libre: Mexican Masks and Devotions, In a Different Light: Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art, The Fabric of Our Land: Salish Weaving, the MOA Journey to Papua New Guinea, and an interview with April Liu, Curator of Public Programs + Engagement.

Masks, Alert Bay, B.C.

Item is a photograph of artifacts of Northwest Coast cultural groups [Kwakwaka'wakw?], including: 3 carved and painted wooden masks, 1 carved and painted wooden headdress, and 1 unidentified wooden object displayed against a white sheet backdrop. The mask on the left might be a Kwakwaka'wakw representation of Dzunuk'wa, The Woman of the Woods. The mask in the middle has an abalone feature.

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