Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Inside a carving workshop

92-1-a034649
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts an interior room used for carving. A canoe is visible in this image.

Inside the big house

92-4-a034622
Item
[ca. 1964-1966]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts the interior of a big house, possibly at Alert Bay, BC. People are dressed in regalia and some kind of event is in progress.

Inside the big house, view three

92-4-a034624
Item
[ca. 1964-1966]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts the interior of a big house, possibly at Alert Bay, BC. People are dressed in regalia and some kind of event is in progress.

Inside the big house, view two

92-4-a034623
Item
[ca. 1964-1966]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts the interior of a big house, possibly at Alert Bay, BC. People are dressed in regalia and some kind of event is in progress.

Inspecting a partially carved pole

92-1-a034533
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Doug Cranmer and another carver, possibly Godfrey Hunt, with a partially carved pole. A man and a woman observe the work.

Inspecting a tree

92-1-a034635
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Douglas Cranmer and Godfrey Hunt inspecting a tree.

Interior house post

132-1-C-C-a041636
Item
1956?

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image of a bear shaped interior house post. This appears to be a house post that was transferred from Hope Island to the Museum of Anthropology in 1956.

Interior house post

132-1-C-C-a041638
Item
1956?

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image of a bear shaped interior house post. This appears to be a house post that was transferred from Hope Island to the Museum of Anthropology in 1956.

Interior house posts

132-1-C-C-a041635
Item
1956?

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image of interior house posts in an abandoned settlement. These appear to be the house posts that were transported from Hope Island to the Museum of Anthropology in 1956.

Interior house posts

132-1-C-C-a041640
Item
1956?

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image of interior house posts in an abandoned settlement. These appear to be the house posts that were transported from Hope Island to the Museum of Anthropology in 1956.

Interior of a carving workshop

92-1-a034647
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts an interior room used for carving. Several unfinished projects and woodworking tools are visible.

Interview with Bill Reid about Celebration of the Raven Part 1

132-3-A-12-MOA-110
Item
1982

Part of MOA General Media collection

Item is the first of a three part sound recording of an interview with Bill Reid about the origins of his carving The Raven and the First Men, located at MOA. The interviewer is unknown. During the interview Bill Reid discusses how the sculpture was the result of a highly collaborative process involving other artists, his impression of the location of the carving in MOA, and his working relationship with Walter C. Koerner who commissioned the sculpture. He lastly discusses his representation and interpretation of the Haida legend that the carving is based on. This recording is part of Celebration of the Raven which documented the creation of the Raven and the First Men Sculpture, its relocation to the Museum of Anthropology, and the unveiling by the Prince of Wales in 1982.

Interview with Haida Elder Percy Brown

132-3-B-2-MAN-041
Item
July 30, 1974

Part of MOA General Media collection

Item is an audio recording of an interview with Percy Brown, a Haida Elder and well-known singer, about birds, animals, fish, whaling and trapping terminology on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. He is interviewed by two unidentified women. In the first half of the recording, he is asked questions about local birds, for example, partridges, puffins and sea gull, in order to determine Haida names for the birds and to determine if the birds are native to Haida Gwaii. He is asked similar questions about various types of vegetation, for example, plant roots. He also provides information about historic uses of trading and trapping in Haida Gwaii. Percy Brown is featured in the 1979 LP Songs from Masset, referenced in the publication Northern Haida Songs by John Enrico and Wendy Bross Stuart which is available in the MOA Reading Room, call number 12.7c HAI ENR.

Introduction to Inuit life Prepared by UBC MOA ENG.