Indian cemetery - Alert Bay, BC
- 30-30-01-30-01-01-a039001
- Item
- [1862-1937, predominant 1930-1937]
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
Image is of a First Nations burial site: road in foreground, power line and two totem poles in background
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Indian cemetery - Alert Bay, BC
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
Image is of a First Nations burial site: road in foreground, power line and two totem poles in background
Totem poles - [Thunderbird on Dzunukwa]
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
Two totem poles, in foreground and background, with a wire fence between them. Totem in foreground is "Thunderbird on Dzunukwa," carved by Willie & Joe Seaweed in Blunden Harbour in 1931.
Totem pole - [Thunderbird on Dzunukwa]
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
Labelled: "Indian Totem. Alert Bay B.C." Single pole at centre foreground. Bottom figure's arms are outstretched. Actual title: "Thunderbird on Dzunukwa." Top figure is Thunderbird and figure below is Dzunukwa. Pole was carved by Willie & Joe Seaweed in Blunden Harbour in 1931.
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
Labelled: "Totem Poles." Close-up of figure's head facing proper right
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
Labelled: "Alert Bay B.C.," followed by copyright symbol. Single pole at centre foreground. Fence and forest in background
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
View over wire fence. Single pole in centre, mid-ground. Burial plots and additional poles in the background.
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
View over wire fence into cemetery. 3 totem poles in view: one mid-ground centre; two in background
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
Item is a glass plate negative of a totem pole. Item is labelled, "TOTEM POLES. ALERT BAY. B.C"
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
Item is a glass plate negative of a totem pole and adjacent buildings. Item is labelled, "Indian Village, Alert Bay BC"
Parte deWilliam Carr fonds
Image of a memorial pole at Alert Bay. Inscription at the bottom held by the figure reads "In loving memory of Tlaowa Latle of the Qiowasudinuk (Kwakwaka'wakw: Kwikwasut'inuxw) Tribe. Died Nov. 9 [rest of inscription illegible].
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Alert Bay Abraham memorial pole
Parte deWilliam Carr fonds
Image of a memorial pole for Abraham at Alert Bay. Carving of pole attributed to Charlie James for Abraham who hailed from Village Island and Fort Rupert.
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Parte deWilliam Carr fonds
Image of two totem poles at Alert Bay. In the foreground is a memorial pole for Chief Wakas. It was raised in 1924 and carved by Arthur Shaughnessy. In the background is a memorial pole for Amos Dawson's uncle. Carved by Charlie James.
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Hospital + Totems Alert Bay B.C. Community Hall on Hill 9/49 Photo by Ronnie's 9
Parte deDiane Elizabeth Barwick fonds
Item is a photograph taken from the water of the hospital, community hall, and other buildings in Alert Bay along the shoreline with the forest in the background. Totem poles are scattered along the shoreline.
St. Michael's School, Alert Bay, B.C.
Parte deDiane Elizabeth Barwick fonds
Item is a photograph with a perforated edge depicting the entrance to the St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay, which was founded in 1929 by the Anglican Church of Canada. Two painted totem poles are visible in front of the school, with thunderbird, [grizzly bear?], and copper figures.
Henry Speck carving house posts for Bighouse in Alert Bay
Photograph of two house posts being carved in a carving shed in Alert Bay, BC. Four people, including Henry Speck, can be seen working on the poles. A child is watching.
Mungo Martin Pole Raising in Alert Bay
Parte deMOA General Media collection
The Mungo Martin memorial pole about to be raised in Alert Bay.
The series contains records created during a number of visits and projects completed with the Kwakwaka'wakw of Alert Bay.
After meeting David Grubb at the Salish Conferences in the early 1970s, Jensen was invited by Grubb to attend a potlatch on Gilford Island, just off Alert Bay. It was the first potlatch that she attended, and Jensen photographed it in black and white without flash.
Around the same time, Gloria Cranmer Webster began involving her UBC colleague Powell in discussions on the development of a Kwak’wala orthography. The two worked on this project during their breaks at work, with the main end goal to create accurate labels for artefacts at the museum, then located in the basement of the library on campus.
In 1975, after she moved back to Alert Bay, Webster contacted Powell and asked him to assist her in the creation of a language and culture book for Kwak’wala speaking people. Powell travelled to Alert Bay, the first of many trips to do such work. Over the next few years, Powell and Jensen were invited to Alert Bay on a number of occasions to attend potlatches, pole raisings, and other community events. Jensen photographed the events, as well as other aspects of the community such as the day care and band school.
In 1980 Webster, on behalf of the U’Mista Cultural Centre, secured salaries for both Jensen and Powell for one full year. They were hired to produce language and culture books, but in reality helped with many other aspects leading to the opening of the Centre. They rented a house in the village and lived there full time for the year, immersing themselves in the community, and creating a body of records that integrates both work and community life. Jensen had permission to photograph extensively, and these are all included in this series. Powell did linguistic research and worked with teachers from both the band school and the provincial school that were located in the village. Jensen also photographed language and culture lessons to be used in the books being produced. During the year they lived in Alert Bay, they produced 12 language books and a teacher’s manual for U’mista.
In 1982 Powell and Jensen purchased a house in Alert Bay, further cementing their intentions to maintain connections to the community. They continued to attend and photograph events and potlatches between projects.
In 1983 the Kwak’wala Teacher Training Program (KTTP) was developed by Powell and Jensen. The program was a college credit course for local area teachers to train them to lead language and culture lessons in their classes. Jensen and Powell divided their teaching duties, involving another teacher named Joy Wild. The program was successful for two years.
Over the next 20 years many of their visits were social in nature, although they continued to keep a detailed record of the events they attended. In 2001 they completed a CD-ROM for the Learning Kwak’wala series. This project had been ongoing for some time.
The series also contains photographic records of two events that took place outside the realm of the language projects. The Canadian Museum of Civilisation hired Doug Cranmer to carve a new Wakas Pole to replace the decaying version in Stanley Park and contacted Jensen to document the event. The second set of photographs records a trip organised by U’Mista Cultural Centre for scholars and experts to visit Mimkwamlis (Village Island) and T’sadzis’nukwakme’ (New Vancouver).
The records kept in this series consist of recordings, photographs, research notes, draft teaching aids, and copies of completed resources for both children’s education and the KTTP.
The series consists of eleven sub-series:
A. U’Mista research/background
B. Research materials
C. Field notes
D. Publications
E. Kwak’wala teacher training program
F. Kwak’wala CD-ROM project
G. Kwak’wala photographs
H. Potlatch photographs.
I. Wakas pole raising in Stanley Park 1987 photographs
J. Trip to Village Island and Tzatsisnukomi (New Vancouver) photographs 2005.
K. Audio recordings
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
Multiple totem poles: View down road at docks. Power line with forest and totem poles at proper left
Indian totem pole - Alert Bay, BC
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
One totem pole. Labelled: "Indian Totem Pole. Alert Bay B.C." "Indian" also printed on non-image area, proper right
Parte deJohn Mennie fonds
Pole in foreground. Building and boardwalk in background