The War History of the Grizzly Bear People of the Kitselas People as Told by Chief Neas D. Hok
- 29-13-148
- File
- [19-?]
Part of Wilson Duff fonds
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The War History of the Grizzly Bear People of the Kitselas People as Told by Chief Neas D. Hok
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Totem Poles of the Upper Skeena
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Part of Wilson Duff fonds
Text of Kitwancool sign by Peter Allik Petersenn
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The Wilson Duff papers consist of textual records, photographs, negatives, slides, maps, audio recordings, compact disks and one video tape that relate to Duff's activities, correspondences, and publications as one of the foremost researchers in Northwest coast Indian history, culture and traditions. Also included in the fonds are records relating to Duff’s work as an Anthropology professor at the University of British Columbia, his advisory and curatorial consultancy work, committee membership and the exhibit Images: Stone: B.C.
Records in the Wilson Duff fonds have been organized into the following seventeen series:
Series 1: Wilson Duff’s student papers (1949-1950)
Series 2: Correspondence (195?-1975)
Series 3: Published and unpublished articles (195?-1972)
Series 4: Site visits (195-)
Series 5: Northwest Coast research (195?-197?)
Series 6: Teaching materials (1965-1976)
Series 7: Committee and consultancy records (1966-1976)
Series 8: Personal records (1965-1976)
Series 9: Photographic records (195?-1976)
Series 10: Maps (1955-1976)
Series 11: Images: Stone: B.C. (1975-1977)
Series 12: Research notes and materials (196?-1976)
Series 13: Tsimshian files (1915-1976, predominant 1957-1971)
Series 14: Recordings (1962-1976)
Series 15: Creative writing (195? - 197?)
Series 16: Posthumous writings on Duff (197? – 199?)
Series 17: Ephemera (195? – 197?)
Wilson Duff
Part of Wilson Duff fonds
Maps created, acquired, and used by Duff in his research and teaching activities. The materials show geographical features; location and boundaries of territories and villages of Northwest coast native people; reserves; language families and distribution, influences, and historical features. Included are ms. maps; and copied, traced, outline and published maps, most with added ms. notations.
The Base maps sub-series consists of topographic maps produced as bases for the creation of other maps to show the locations and territorial boundaries of native people within British Columbia. Maps include ms. notations by Duff.
The Territory maps sub-series consists of ms. maps; and base, outline, copied and photocopied maps with ms. notations. Items show location and boundaries of native territories in British Columbia and the United States. Includes maps showing extent and detail of Tsimshian territory; Kispiox sites; Kitwancool territory and sites; South Kwakiutl territory, villages and tribes. Notations identify some place names and villages.
The Reserve maps sub-series consist of copied and published maps with ms. notations showing the location and extent of various reserves. Some acreage is also included.
The Miscellaneous Maps sub-series consists of published, copied and outline maps showing language families in North America, influences on British Columbia native people, historical distribution of native people in B.C., and Vancouver Island in the 19th century.
Part of Wilson Duff fonds
Part of Wilson Duff fonds
File consists of slides including: Kitwancool, Kitselas, Kitwanga, Kispiox, b&w slides of Kitsegukla, Gitksan grave markers.
Part of Wilson Duff fonds
Item is a copied map that shows Kitwancool territories and villages, rivers and lakes referred to in "Territories of the Kitwancool" chapter in Histories, Territories, and Laws of the Kitwancool. Title taken from duplicate found in Histories. Encapsulated.
Part of Wilson Duff fonds
Item is a copied map that shows places, rivers and lakes of Kitwancool territory referred to in "History of the wars with the Tse-tsaut: How the village of Git-an-yow became Kitwancool" chapter in Histories, Territories, and Laws of the Kitwancool. Encapsulated.
Part of Wilson Duff fonds
Item is a copied map that shows territorial boundaries of the Kitwancool, territories of the Wolf and Frog clans, villages, and numbered sites. Inset: Location map. No legend provided for numbered sites. Based on "Territories of the Kitwancool" map included in Histories, Territories, and Laws of the Kitwancool, found in Duff's textual records, box 2, file 8. Mended with document repair tape in 1984. Encapsulated.
[Histories, Territories and Laws of the Kitwancool]
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Histories, territorial laws of the Kitwancool
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Part of Wilson Duff fonds
File consists of correspondence from 1966 and 1967 between Wilson Duff and K.O.L. Burridge, of the Pitt Rivers Museum, regarding Haida potlatch masks. Included is correspondence from 1902 between Franz Boas and E.B. Tylor, which notes a discussion between Charles Edenshaw and John Swanton. The file also consists of b&w photos of the masks and the article "The Haidas," from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, dated June-November 1882.
Narrative and Songs from Fort Fraser, Hagwilget, Kispiox, Shuswap
Part of Wilson Duff fonds
Item is an audio recording made by Wilson Duff that features narrative and songs spoken and sung in several First Nations languages.
The first segment of the recording took place on August 1, 1962 in Fort Fraser at the home of Maxime George and the language used is Dakelh; accompanying documentation states that Mr. George was away but his sister Bernadette Grey was present along with Mrs. George and her sister.
The second segment of the recording took place on August 3, 1962 in Hagwilget at the house of Pete and Bernadette Grey and the language used is Dakelh; accompanying documentation states that the main singer is Donald Gray and his wife.
The third segment of the recording took place on August 16, 1962 featuring Johnson Williams, who has a Kitwancool name of Guano and the language used is Gitxsan.
The fourth segment of the recording took place on August 16, 1962 featuring Maxime George. The fifth portion of the recording is a Kitwancool recording. The final segment of the recording features Shuswap songs.
A two page document accompanied the recording. Document text:
Carrier
Wilson Duff interview with Jonathan Johnson at Kispiox
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Item is an audio recording of an interview by Wilson Duff with Jonathan Johnson about the geography of the Gitxsan village of Kispiox and surrounding region. According to Tribal Boundaries in the Nass Watershed by Neil J. Stewart (MOA Reading Room, call number 12.7c GIT STE), Jonathan Johnson (1902-1968) of Kispiox was from the House of Xhliimlaxha and had knowledge of territories in the Nass watershed, including his father’s territory at Gwinhagiistxw. In interviews that took place on July 6 and 7, 1965, Duff gathered information about house territories in the Nass and Skeena watersheds to produce a map showing territories and numbered sites at Kispiox, see the Wilson Duff fonds at MOA, Box/File# Mc15, File# 10-B-21.
Anthropology 301 Gitksan - Kitwancool (301-8)
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Anthropology 301 Kitwancool (301-1-9)
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Part of Wilson Duff fonds
File consists of slides including: exhibits at Museum of Natural History, exhibits at Museum of History and Technology, July 1970, trip to Hazelton, Rupert, and other locations. Images include Kitwancool, Skeena and Kitwanga poles and Kispiox totems.
Talk on the Indian land question
Part of Wilson Duff fonds