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Image of Kwakwaka'wakw masks and material culture display at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.

Item is a photograph of the mid-section of a Nuu-chah-nulth totem pole at Queens Cove on Esperanza Inlet (Vancouver Island)

Item is a photograph of the bottom section of a Nuu-chah-nulth totem pole at Queens Cove on Esperanza Inlet (Vancouver Island)

Item is a photograph of a section of a Nuu-chah-nulth totem pole and canoe remnants from the Ehattesaht nation on Esperanza Inlet (Vancouver Island)

Item is a photograph of a section of a Nuu-chah-nulth totem pole from the Ehattesaht nation on Esperanza Inlet (Vancouver Island)

Photograph of two Hopi women (whom Maude identifies using the outdated term Moki) weaving a manta.

Photograph of a group of Hopi women (whom Maude identifies using the outdated term Moki) baking pottery at Orau (?).

Photograph depicts a flock goats in the desert in Arizona.

Photograph depicts a street lined with multi-storied dwellings in Oraibi, a Hopi village in Arizona.

Photograph showing a plaza of the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico.

Photograph depicts four Zuni (A:shiwi) children in front of a wall, likely in the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico.

Photograph depicts a stone wall that Maude has identified as the remains of ancient pueblo on top of El Morro, New Mexico. He is likely referring to the El Morro National Monument, a great standstone promontory. The site is also known as A'ts'ina ("place of writing on the rock" in Zuni) or Inscription Rock because of inscriptions that travellers have left on the rocks for several centuries.

Photograph of a Zuni (A:shiwi) man wearing a blanket in front of a wall, likely taken in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico

Photograph of what Maude has identified as upright stones used in certain A:shiwi (Zuni) ceremonies. In the same inscription, Maude writes that the photograph also shows an man throwing sacred corn meal to the north.

Image depicts two poles standing in an open area. The front pole features a human-like creature on visible portion. The back pole also includes a human figure at the bottom with an owl on top. The figures on the bottom may be crest figures (Leading In or Halfway Out) or a Man of the Wild. Read's note suggests that one of these may be a Pole of Hrkyadet at Kispiox.

Image depicts three totem poles, standing in an open area. Read's note under this photo indicates that the pole on the left may by a Snag-of-the-Sand-Bar pole from the House of Chief Skogum Laxhe. The pole on the right may be Chief Laxhe`s Hat-of-Tsagyem-hanak Pole. See also item a034837 for a closeup of the Snag-of-the-Sand-Bar pole.

Image depicts a carving of a creature that resembles a bear--with fins. The carving sits on a wooden structure, possibly a carver's bench. Several buildings can be seen behind the carving platform.

Read's note cards detail information about three groups of totem poles and contain text and page references to Marius Barbeau's book, Totem Poles of the Gitksan, Upper Skeena River, British Columbia (published by the Canada Department of Mines and the National Museum of Canada, 1929).

Image depicts canoes, house, house posts, and totem poles on a shoreline in Masset, Haida Gwaii, B. C. Handwritten inscription on the verso reads "This is a Indian Village in Masset B. C. at the turn of the century. As you can see there are a lot of wooden shacks, totem poles and canoes. it is a very wild and remote area [redacted]. grandfather Crosby used to travel to these remoat [sic] villages by canoe." Image appears to be reproduction of a039351.

Image depicts canoes, house, house posts, and totem poles on a shoreline in Masset, Haida Gwaii, B. C. Printed around the border of the image is the photographer information "PHOTOGRAPHED BY R. MAYNARD, VICTORIA, . . . B. C." Handwritten inscription on the border reads "Massett [sic] Village Q. Ch. Is." Printed on the verso is the photographer information with the inscription "R. Maynard, Photographic Artist, AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS, COR. OF DOUGLAS AND JOHNSON STS., VICTORIA, B. C. -- Views of British Columbia and Vancouver Island for Sale." A handwritten inscription reads "Indian Totems Queen Charlotte's Island".