Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Squirrel Dance

131-a040239
Item
February 1987

Part of Joi Carlin fonds

Image is of Josiah and Mercy watching Norman perform his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log.

Squirrel Dance

131-a040247
Item
February 1987

Part of Joi Carlin fonds

Image is of Tait family members wearing button blankets and beating skin drums while Norman performs his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log.

Native Brotherhood, Stony Mt. Pow Wow dancers at U of W

134-a040068
Item
17 Feb. 1971

Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds

Preparing dinner

16-a033390
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of James Davidson collection

Item is a photograph of four women working in a kitchen.

Canoe race, Sports Day, Somass River, Port Alberni

51-01-20-a035597
Item
1948

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

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

25-01-03-a034963
Item
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

R. Davidson [Jr.] pole raising, Masset Q.C.I.

25-02-09-a037726
Item
1969

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows two dancers on an interior stage.

Anthony Carter

Cowichan salmon weir

25-03-12-a038182
Item
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

81-04-a033246
Item
[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
Item
[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

81-05-a033081
Item
[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.

Dancers at potlatch, Alert Bay (?)

81-05-a033104
Item
[195- or 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of dancers at an indoor potlatch or other event, likely in or near Alert Bay, BC.

River fishing

94-a034821
Item
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

14-2-a033054
Item
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
Item
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.