Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Person with mask

81-03-a033199
Item
[ca. 1957]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of an unidentified individual wearing a carved mask, in what appears to be either a store or a house.

Mildred Laurie

Mask display in store or home

81-03-a033193
Item
[ca. 1957]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph depicts a number of carved masks that are on display in what appears to be either a store or a house.

Mildred Laurie

Mask display in store or home

81-03-a033196
Item
[ca. 1957]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph depicts a number of carved masks that are on display in what appears to be either a store or a house.

Mildred Laurie

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

41-1-a060274c
Item
June 21, 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

Item is a photograph of four men dancing in ceremonial dress (button blankets, carved [eagle?] mask with cedar strips) performing a ceremonial dance in front of a crowd of on-lookers. The man second from the left is Willie Sewid [Seaweed; Seewid?].

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

41-1-a060276c
Item
June 21, 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

Item is a photograph of a crowd of people in ceremonial dress and regular clothes watching two people performing a mask dance. One person wears a crooked beak [four-faced?] mask while the other is wearing a button blanket and headdress. Willie Seewid [Seaweed; Sewid?] is the man on the left looking at the dancer - noted by William Wasden Jr., 2005/02/22.

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

41-1-a060277c
Item
June 21, 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

Item is a photograph of two men performing a dance while a crowd watches. The man on the right in ceremonial dress (button blanket, cedar bark headdress) is Willie Seewid [Seaweed; Sewid?], who carved the crooked beak mask with cedar strips that is worn by the other dancer on the left.

Alert Bay, centenary celebrations (?)

81-05-a033096
Item
[1958]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of a person in ceremonial dress and a mask, standing on a pier in Alert Bay(?). Based on details in similar images in this file, it is possible that the photograph was taken at an event celebrating British Columbia's centenary in 1958.

Michael M. Ames fonds (private records)

6
Fonds
1959-1984, predominant 1982-1984

The fonds consists mainly of slides, negatives, and other material relating to Sinhalese (Sri Lankan) and other South Asian masks held at numerous repositories worldwide, studied by Ames in the late 1950s and early 1980s. Subjects also include people, places, temples, ceremonies, and daily life in Sri Lanka, Bangkok, Cambodia, and Singapore. Numerous research articles reproduced by Ames, as well as travel brochures, are included. Material from student exhibits related to South Asian masks is also included.
The records have not been arranged into series since the entire fonds consists of closely related material.

Michael M. Ames

Painted mask

25-03-01-a037803
Item
[196-?]

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of what appears to be a mask, featured painted, carved wood, feathers, shells, and fur.

Group in ceremonial dress on dock, Alert Bay

81-05-a033078
Item
[ca. 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of a group of people in ceremonial dress standing on a dock in Alert Bay, BC. Most are looking away from the camera, toward a boat next to the dock.

Masked dancer and crowd, Alert Bay

81-05-a033083
Item
[ca. 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of a dancer at an outdoor event, possibly a potlatch. The dancer is wearing a mask. A crowd is gathered around him.

Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

29-5-19
File
1960

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.

Crowd at outdoor event, Alert Bay

81-05-a033080
Item
[ca. 196-]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of part of the crowd at an outdoor event, possibly a potlatch. A number of people are wearing ceremonial dress and masks.

Sea gull mask, side view

92-2-a034599
Item
[ca. 1965 - 1970]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a side view of a sea gull mask. The bottom section of a totem pole is visible on the right side of the photo.

Old whale mask

92-2-a034625
Item
[ca. 1965 - 1970]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts an old mask of a whale. Several parts are articulated and held together with string. Mask may have been found in Quatsino, on the northern portion of Vancouver Island.

Old whale mask

92-2-a034579
Item
[ca. 1965 - 1970]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a whale mask, painted in black, white and red. Photograph has been taken inside next to a door or window. Mask may have been found in Quatsino, on the northern portion of Vancouver Island.