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Photographed at Bella Coola, BC. Charilier is Carrier, Mrs. West is Chilcotin

She gives her birth date as 1867, and was about two years old at the time of the smallpox epidemic Her father was born at Stewie and her mother were was born at Chimotl

Is the daughter of Willie Mack and was photographed holding a copper. Her bracelets are made by a Haida Indian who visits Bella Bella

Captain Schooner (1841 – 1923) is 80 years old and his father and mother were both full blood Bellacoola Indians

Tommie and his daughter Annie were photographed at Pashla Creek, Bella Koola. He
thinks he is about 40 years old and Annie is 6 years old. He says he is a Stick Indian and was the Indian policeman in Ulkatcho region in 1920. Harlan Smith sent a photographic print to him March 11, 1921

Gives his age as sixty seven years old and is the lighthouse keeper. Wiah Point between
Masset Inlet and Naden Harbour was named after his uncle

Chief “Bob” Selqua of Pavilion – Lillooet Indian village. Says his ancestors painted a man pictograph every time a chief died. The pictures of stars around one of the men indicate his greatness and some of the pictures represent bear tracks

Chief Walking Buffalo and his family are shown standing in front of their tipi in a camp circle in Banff Provincial Park’s Elk Paddock. The photograph captures them during the Park’s twenty-fifth Annual Indian Day celebration.

Fonds consists of photographic prints and text labels used in the “Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples’ Photographic Perspective” exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, from October 22, 1999 to January 6, 2002. The images depict several different First Nations groups including Haida, Kimsquit, Bella Coola, Ulkatcho-Carrier, Chilcotin, Assiniboine, and Gitksan. The label text incorporates information which Smith recorded at the time of creation. It gives name and age (if known) of the sitters as well as lineage, employment, and style of dress.