Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

4-02-a033653
Stuk
[1922]

Item is a negative showing a stone building with a large wall hanging off of it. The hanging appears to have an image of a Buddha on it.

Silk temple hanging

4-02-a033654
Stuk
[1922]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a close up of the wall hanging described in negative a033653.

Face carving

94-a034799
Stuk
[1946 - 1948]

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts a human face, probably carved in wood. The image is cropped, but it appears that trees are growing behind this sculpture. This carving may be from Kitwanga, BC, as described by Read in his journal.

Totems, Alert Bay B.C. R.S.3

41-1-a060279c
Stuk
[ca.1947-1950]

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

Item is a photograph of painted cedar wood carvings including Sisiyutl (serpent), thunderbird, coppers, and [wolf?] figures in Alert Bay.

Tibetian pendants and belt

14-2-a033050
Stuk
c. 1948

Part of Beatrice Pilon fonds

Image depicts several individuals wearing pendants and a belt. These items may have religious significance. See also item a033051.

Women wearing pendants and belt

14-2-a033051
Stuk
c. 1948

Part of Beatrice Pilon fonds

Image depicts several women, some wearing large pendants and one wearing a decorative belt. This is a fuller image of item a033050, which offers a close up view of the jewelry.

Grizzly bear of the water carving

94-a034848
Stuk
1948

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts a close up of a carving of a creature that resembles a grizzly bear with fins on its back. This carving is similar to the one depicted in item a034843.

Memorial carving for a chief

94-a034850
Stuk
1948

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts a carving (possibly concrete) of a fish-like creature with a dorsal fin, mounted on stone. The inscription reads CHIEF WIEAHAKYSOU (?) Died Mar 1912 Aged 70 years.

Staff research, publications and productions

35-9-D
Deelreeks
1949-1979

Part of Audrey Hawthorn (MOA Curator) fonds

Subseries consists of material produced by museum staff, among them Wilson Duff, Harry and Audrey Hawthorn, Marjorie Halpin, and Gloria Cranmer Webster. There is extensive material on Audrey Hawthorn’s Art of the Kwakiutl Indians. Included in this subseries are ca. 2000 photographs which were collected for possible use in this book. Photographs are numbered A38-A17206 with many numbers missing throughout. The majority of photographs are of wooden masks, but they are also of bowls, bentwood boxes, paddles, rattles, totem poles, talking sticks, headdresses and frontlets, wooden figures and miniatures, whistles, spoons, silver bracelets, argillite carvings, button blankets, chilkat blankets, cedar head and neck rings, woodworking tools, stone tools, and fish hooks. Other record forms included in this subseries include correspondence, notes and published materials.

Two men in ceremonial dress, Alert Bay

81-05-a033133
Stuk
[ca. 195-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Portrait of two men in ceremonial dress, one of whom is holding a carved and painted stick. The men are standing in front of a painted board and sheet, in a filed in Alert Bay, BC. Based on the content of related images in this file, this photograph was likely taken at an outdoor event and/or salmon barbecue.

Painting: two whales on wood

81-03-a033187
Stuk
[ca. 195- or 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of an unidentified piece of art, depicting what appears to be two whales, painted on a piece of wood.

Zonder titel

Painted sheet at Alert Bay event (?)

81-05-a033131
Stuk
[ca. 195-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of a painted sheet and small portion of a painted board that are displayed in a field in Alert Bay, BC. Based on the content of related images in this file, this photograph was likely taken at an outdoor event and/or salmon barbecue.

Painted sheet at Alert Bay event (?)

81-05-a033132
Stuk
[ca. 195-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of a painted sheet and small portion of a painted board that are displayed in a field in Alert Bay, BC. Based on the content of related images in this file, this photograph was likely taken at an outdoor event and/or salmon barbecue.