Image depicts an elderly man standing in front a wooden structure. He wears ceremonial dress, including head gear. See also image a034813 for a front view of this man. Read's note suggests this photo may have been taken at Topley Landing on Babine Lake.
Image depicts a man standing in front a wooden structure. He wears ceremonial dress, including head gear. Another view of this man can be seen in image a034816. Read's note suggests this photo may have been taken at Topley Landing on Babine Lake.
Image depicts a man standing in front a wooden structure. He wears ceremonial dress, including head gear. A child stands in the background. Another view of this man can be seen in image a034815. Read's note suggests this photo may have been taken at Topley Landing on Babine Lake.
Image depicts two elderly men standing in front a wooden structure. Both wear ceremonial dress, including head gear. A young child stands behind the men, at the door of the structure. Read's note suggests this photo may have been taken at Topley Landing on Babine Lake.
Image depicts a man wearing ceremonial dress, including head gear. He is posed outside, near a body of water. Read's note suggests this photo may have been taken at Topley Landing on Babine Lake.
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 an object that may be a bent tree trunk at the edge of a body of water. The foreground contains brush; mountains are visible in the distance.
Image depicts a large waterfall, possibly one located on the Skeena River along the Salmon Trail in New Hazelton, B. C. This image may be a closeup of the waterfall depicted in image a034790.