Item is an image of a coastal area with cliffs. According to annotations, there are paintings on lower ledge right center of the cliffs and image was taken by E. F. Meade.
Item is a close-up image of a petroglyph pecked on a rock. According to annotation, petroglyph is a circle pecked on granite, but not the same circle as the one in black and white, image was taken by E. F. Meade. Original slide included the numbers 3545 and other handwritten annotations reading "circle with [??????]?."
Item is a close-up image of a petroglyph pecked on a rock. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade. Original slide included number 3545.
Item is a close-up image of a petroglyph pecked on a rock with smaller rocks on the side, probably on a beach. According to annotations, image was taken by Dick Pattinson from Alert Bay. Original slide included number 3546
Item is a close-up image of a petroglyph pecked on a sandstone rock with smaller rocks on the side, probably in a beach area. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade. Original slide included number 29.
Item is a close-up image of a petroglyph pecked on a sandstone rock with smaller rocks on the side, probably in a beach area. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade. Original slide included numbers 93 and 17.
Item is a close-up image of a petroglyph pecked on a rock . According to annotations, image was taken by Dick Pattinson. Original slide included numbers 10 and LC3001.
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).
