Hunt Family Heritage: Contemporary Kwakiutl Art
- 124-01-027
- File
- 1981
Hunt Family Heritage: Contemporary Kwakiutl Art
Kwagiutl Masks: An Expression of Transformation
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
File consists of images of Kwakwaka'wakw displays the the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
Anthony Carter
Mr. Peters at Dead Point Reserve
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Anthony Carter
Kingcome Inlet & Gwayasdums (Gilford Island)
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
File consists of images of the Kingcome Inlet and Gilford Island, both in the central coast area of British Columbia. Scenery and individuals from the area are featured.
Anthony Carter
Kwakiutl potlatch for Tony Hunt
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
File consists of images from a Kwakiutl potlatch for artists Tony Hunt, in Alert Bay, BC.
Anthony Carter
Majorie Halpin - Alert Bay Memorial Mungo Martin
Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
File consists of images of Alert Bay, BC and the raising of a memorial pole for Mungo Martin in 1970. Based on annotations on the slides, they were likely taken by Marjorie Halpin, who was a curator at the Museum of Anthropology.
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
File consists of images of Alert Bay, a village located on Comorant Island, off of the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, BC. Subjects include a memorial and memorial pole raising for Kwakiutl Chief Mungo Martin, scenery from the area, a cemetery, totem poles, and Chief Johnson of Fort Rupert BC.
Anthony Carter
History of Copper (20 coppers from Alert Bay), GW(?) Hunt, 1924
Part of Director's fonds
Photocopy of a manuscript about coppers from Alert Bay, BC. Front page notes that it was "sent by GW(?) Hunt, Port Hardy, BC." It also has a stamp from the "Department of Mines geological Survey, received Mar 26, 1924. Division of Anthropology."
Original manuscript might be at UBC's Rare Books and Special Collections library.
File contains a combination of images of Kwakwaka'wakw artifacts housed in various museums and images of historical Kwakwaka'wakw villages on Vancouver Island and along the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. Artifacts include totem poles, bentwood boxes, carvings, masks, and Kwakwaka'wakw artwork such as paintings and drawings. There are historical photographs of the following villages: Gwat'sinuxw (Quatsino), Kwikwasutinuxw (Gilford Island), A'wa'etlala Village (Knight's Inlet), Mamalikala (Village Island), Wiwekalu Village of T'la'mataxw (Campbell River), Kwixa Village (Salmon River), Dunaxda'xw Village (New Vancouver), and Gwa'sala Village (Smith Inlet). The textual records include information about some of the photographs, identifying items such as the people, the villages, and/or the artifacts depicted in the photographs.
This file contains images of Coast Salish and Kwakwaka'wakw artifacts. Many of the photos are official photographs taken by various museums in Canada and the United States, but others are historical photos. These artifacts include masks, rattles, carvings, fishing equipment and fish processing, canoes, and North Coast architecture, such as long houses and house posts.
File contains images of various First Nations Cultural groups from the Pacific Northwest. The images include negatives and slides of Northwest Coast villages, totem poles, longhouses, and First Nations peoples dressed in regalia.
File contains a combination of historical and modern day images of canoes used by First Nation groups living on the Northwest Coast. The historical images contain images of village life and uses of the canoe in a historical context. The modern day images show canoes housed in various museums in Canada and the United States. The textual records contained in this file are photocopies of images of canoes, both from historical photographs and of modern day photographs.
File contains images of canoes from various Northwest Coast First Nations communities including Tsimshian, Haida, Nuxalk, Kwakwaka'wakw and Nuu-chah-nulth.
File contains photographs of a dowry board including a historic image of the board taken in 1951.
Canoe making: the Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island
File contains a copy of an article titled "Carving a Kwakiutl canoe," and an excerpt from Franz Boas' <i> The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island </i> manuscript published in 1909.
Miscellaneous totem pole images
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
File consists of images of totem poles and other carvings, some of which were taken at the University of British Columbia. The others are unidentified.
Anthony Carter
Part of Minn Sjolseth fonds
File consists of slides depicting various potlatches, totem poles, as well as portraits of various people. Slides also depict some of Minn Sjolseth's paintings. Some slides are labeled with the following: "Face from a Potlatch, Kwakiutl, 1971," "Kitsequechla, 1970," "Potlatch, Kwakiutl, 1971," "Last Watch...," and "Potlatch 75."