Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Saxmen Tlinget dancing at Totem Bite [Bight], Ketchikan, Alaska

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24 Aug. 1972

131-a040241
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February 1987

Image features Norman performing his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log. A family member wearing a button blanket with his back to the camera is beating a skin drum.

Squirrel Dance

131-a040243
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February 1987

Part of Joi Carlin fonds

A Tait family member wearing a button blanket watches Norman perform his squirrel dance on top of canoe log.

Squirrel Dance

131-a040244
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February 1987

Part of Joi Carlin fonds

A Tait family member wearing a button blanket watches Norman crouched on top of canoe log performing his squirrel dance.

Squirrel Dance

131-a040245
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February 1987

Part of Joi Carlin fonds

Norman Tait performing his squirrel on top of the canoe log.

Fishing from boats

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[19--?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Photograph of people fishing from boats. They may be spear fishing or dip netting. A possible caption for this photograph says "Fishing (Athabascan)." It is difficult to discern if the canoes are of Coast Salish or Athabascan design.

Woman dancing

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[ca. 1964-1966]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a woman wearing wearing a mix of western clothing and regalia dancing outdoors. Several other woman can be seen dancing behind her. Spectators watch the dance as well.

Man dancing

92-4-a034658
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[ca. 1964-1966]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a man dancing outdoors. He wears swim trunks and regalia and is accompanied by two male drummers standing behind him. Spectators stand in the background.

North Coast: [scenery], Tom Brown's cannon, Nowish Cove, Finlayson Channel, Klemtu, Myers Pass rock paintings

25-01-03-a034963
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1966

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a man on a boat holding up a fish that appears to have just been pulled out of the water.

Anthony Carter

Cowichan salmon weir

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1973

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

mage of three individuals standing on the platform of a fishing weir on the Cowichan River, holding spears. A similar image is printed on page 15 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "Salmon weir on the Cowichan river, the native people continue a very ancient form of spear fishing for migrating salmon. The weir is not a trap but merely a means to slow the fish on the way up the river."

Anthony Carter

Kwakiutl Indian Dancers

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[ca. 1960 - 1990]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Kwakiutl Indian Dance Costumes, Vancouver Island, B. C., Canada. Back of postcard states: "Mrs. Ben Alfred, Sr., Mrs. Alfred, Mrs. Cramner, and Mrs. Sewid; Long House West Bay." Photo by E. J. Cooke; published by J Barnard, Photographer, LTD, Victoria B. C.

Dancer and crowd, Alert Bay

81-05-a033077
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[ca. 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of a dancer at an outdoor gathering (potlatch?), with a large crowd watching.

Dancer and crowd, Alert Bay

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[ca. 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of a dancer at an outdoor event, possibly a potlatch. A crowd is around the dancer, including others in ceremonial dress.

River fishing

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1948

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts a man standing on a river bank holding a long pole over the river. He appears to have caught a fish and to be bringing it in. A pile of fish sit on the riverbank.

Tibetian dancing

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c. 1948

Part of Beatrice Pilon fonds

Image depicts another view of dancing what may be the Black Hat Dance in front of a building that may be a Buddhist monastery or temple. Also visible are some large drums, which may be played for this dance.

Tibetian dancing

14-2-a033056
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c. 1948

Part of Beatrice Pilon fonds

Image depicts a distant view of several individuals dancing what may be the Black Hat Dance in front of a building that may be a Tibetian Buddhist monastery or temple.