View of Indian professional dancers performing the Swan Dance in their Community Hall. Alert Bay, Cormorant Island, British Columbia. Photo by Eric J. Cooke Photo Productions, Sidney, B. C.
Item is a photograph of: Back row, from left: Jack Hanuse and George Alfred Middle row, from left: Nora Alfred (later married Arthur Dick) and Mary Alfred (later married Jack Hanuse) Front: Hazel Alfred (nee Hunt) Information supplied by Elders from Alert Bay in January 2001
Item is a photograph of: Back row, from left: Jack Hanuse and George Alfred Middle row, from left: Nora Alfred (later married Arthur Dick) and Mary Alfred (later married Jack Hanuse) Front: Hazel Alfred (nee Hunt) Information supplied by Elders from Alert Bay in January 2001
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.
Items from the Museum of Anthropology including house posts, feast dishes, a bentwood box, and model totem poles, on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows Davidson speaking into a microphone, wearing what appears to be ceremonial clothing and a headdress. A crowd is gathered around him.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image is of a bald eagle sitting at the top of a tree.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows two men (one is Davidson) and a woman standing at a microphone. They are inside at a banquet.
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows the pole lying on the ground, with a crowd gathered around it.
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