Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

From all over the place, raising totem in Alert Bay

25-02-11-a037792
Item
[196-?]

Image of a totem pole in Alert Bay, BC, at the grave of the Kwakiutl Chief Mungo Martin. The pole was carved to honor the Chief. This image shows the pole right after it has been raised, with the ropes used to raise it still attached. Additional information and images of this pole are featured on pages 28-33 of Carter's book "From History's Locker."

Anthony Carter

Chief Mungo Martin memorial, pole raising

25-03-06-a037931
Item
August 1970

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of the top of a totem pole made in memory of the Kwakiutl Chief Mungo Martin. The pole was placed at his grave.

Anthony Carter

Chief Mungo Martin memorial, pole raising

25-03-06-a037951
Item
August 1970

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of the raising of a totem pole made in memory of the Kwakiutl Chief Mungo Martin. The pole was placed at his grave.

Anthony Carter

Alert Bay Potlatch for Tony Hunt, name giving and presenting his personal song

25-03-07-a038032
Item
June 18, 1971

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of dancers at the potlatch.

Anthony Carter

Alert Bay Potlatch for Tony Hunt, name giving and presenting his personal song

25-03-07-a038036
Item
June 18, 1971

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a group drumming on a pole at the potlatch.

Anthony Carter

Alert Bay Potlatch for Tony Hunt, name giving and presenting his personal song

25-03-07-a038037
Item
June 18, 1971

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of dancers at the potlatch with pole carving in the background.

Anthony Carter

Alert Bay Potlatch for Tony Hunt, name giving and presenting his personal song

25-03-07-a038046
Item
June 18, 1971

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of dancer at the potlatch who has taken off his mask and is holding it. The fire is in the foreground, and poles are in the background.

Anthony Carter

Alert Bay Potlatch for Tony Hunt, name giving and presenting his personal song

25-03-07-a038049
Item
June 18, 1971

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of attendees of the potlatch, including some seated near the set of poles and a masked dancer.

Anthony Carter

Alert Bay Potlatch for Tony Hunt, name giving and presenting his personal song

25-03-07-a038051
Item
June 18, 1971

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of attendees of the potlatch, including some seated near the set of poles and a dancer.

Anthony Carter

Alert Bay Potlatch for Tony Hunt, name giving and presenting his personal song

25-03-07-a038055
Item
June 18, 1971

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of attendees of the potlatch.

Anthony Carter

Alert Bay Potlatch for Tony Hunt, name giving and presenting his personal song

25-03-07-a038058
Item
June 18, 1971

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of the crowd seated near the wall at the potlatch.

Anthony Carter

Alert Bay Potlatch for Tony Hunt, name giving and presenting his personal song

25-03-07-a038064
Item
June 18, 1971

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a group of children performing in the center of the potlatch.

Anthony Carter

Potlatches

25-03-10
File
[197-]

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

File consists of images from a potlatch (or potlatches) in North Vancouver, BC.

Anthony Carter

Potlatch N Van, girl in ceremonial dress

25-03-10-a038108
Item
1976

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Portrait of a young woman in ceremonial dress at a potlatch in North Vancouver.

Anthony Carter

Potlatch (?)

25-03-10-a038112
Item
[197-?]

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a group drumming on a pole at what appears to be a potlatch.

Anthony Carter

Kuldip Gill fonds

7
Fonds
1978

Fonds consists of 21 photographs from the 1978 Bill Reid pole raising ceremony at Skidegate, an event at which Gill was an observer.

Kuldip Gill

Man and a woman seated with costume

4-02-a033727
Item
[192-?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing a man and a woman adorned in white seated at a ceremony.

Northwest Coast groups

3-3-11
Series
1975 - 2005

Part of Vickie Jensen and Jay Powell fonds

Series consists of photographs documenting events in various communities throughout British Columbia and Washington State. These include community photographs in Mt. Currie; the Salish Linguistic Conference in Oman, Washington State; a Robert Davidson Pole Raising; coverage of NWC artifacts at the National Museum of Copenhagen in Denmark; coverage of 1992 Nuxalk Potlatch at Bella Coola for Canadian Museum of Civilization; and photographs of a Haida bentwood box.

Between working on language and education projects, Jensen was often hired by communities to document important events, such as pole-raisings, conferences and potlatches. This series consists of the photographs taken at those events.