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Postcard depicts two professional first nations dancers, performing the Swan Dance in the Alert Bay, BC longhouse. Photograph and postcard by Eric J. Cooke.

Item is a photograph of buildings, totem pole and boardwalk. Item is inscribed, "INDIAN VILLAGE, ALERT BAY, B.C. CANADA"

Item is a photograph of a church and surrounding buildings. The harbour appears in the foreground. Lower portion of item is inscribed, "ANGLICAN CHURCH & MANSE, ALERT BAY, B.C."

Item is a photograph of a building and side yard.

Item is a photograph of a building. An unidentified individual stands on the porch

Item is a photograph of two buildings, one of which is blocking the street. An unidentified individual is standing next to a horse and cart. A bull is across the street from them

Item is a photograph of two storage tanks labelled "SHELL," harbour and ship repair shop

Item is a photograph of a building on stilts labelled "STORE." The beach appears in the foreground

Item is a photograph of a building on stilts labelled "MACHINE SHOP, GENERAL SHIP REPA, and MARINE REPAIR CO. FLOATING PLANT." The harbour appears in the foreground and adjacent buildings appear in the background

Item is a photograph of two buildings across from the harbour. The beach, a boat and several people also appear

Item is a photograph of buildings on stilts on the beach. The harbour and beach appear in the foreground. Buildings across the street from the harbour and storage tanks appear in the background

Item is a photograph of several boats in the harbour. The marine repair shop appears on the right. St. Michael's Indian Residential School appears in the far left background

Item is an aerial photograph of the harbour. St. Michael's Indian Residential School appears in the centre

Item is a glass plate negative of the harbour and adjacent buildings.

House with four totem poles

Image depicts exterior view of the Mountain House, frontal pole, house post, and mortuary pole located on Moresby Island in Haida Gwaii, B. C. In the foreground is a canoe. Printed around the border of the image is the photographer information "PHOTOGRAPHED BY R. MAYNARD, VICTORIA, . . . B. C." Handwritten inscription on the border reads "Gold Harbour 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 Village".

Image depicts Lax-Kw'alaams (Port Simpson), Prince Rupert, B. C. Printed around the border of the image is the photographer information "PHOTOGRAPHED BY R. MAYNARD, VICTORIA, . . . B. C." 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." Handwritten inscription reads "Port Simpson B. C."

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of eight children and three adults in front of a church. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken in Alert Bay and the church might be Christ Church, Anglican church.

MOA Object ID numbers correspond to poles in the image from left to right.

A50030 carved by Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer (1961-62) as the frontal pole for the front of the Haida house, at the University of British Columbia, for display in Totem Park. Moved to the new Museum of Anthropology grounds in 1978. Pole was removed from the Haida House in 2000-09 and placed in a greenhouse tent for conservation treatment and drying. Pole was then re-raised in the Great Hall of the Museum on Oct. 31, 2002.

Mortuary House frontal pole by Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer (1960-61) moved from Totem Park to MOA in 1978.