File includes one drawing and two photographs of MOA Object ID A1780 and A1781 which are carved figures. The photographs are annotated with handwritten information about their original repositories. The contents of this file were used to create object labels for MOA's Great Hall.
Opening of Totem Park. The date given on the slide label is incorrect. People in the photograph from viewer's left: Rev. Peter R. Kelly (the Haida ordained minister and Indigenous political leader,) Hunter Lewis, UBC Chancellor Eric Hamber, Mungo Martin, UBC Chancellor Norman Mackenzie, Abaya Martin.
Opening of Totem Park. The date given on the slide label is incorrect. People in the photograph from viewer's left: Rev. Peter R. Kelly (the Haida ordained minister and Indigenous political leader,) Hunter Lewis, UBC Chancellor Eric Hamber, Mungo Martin, UBC Chancellor Norman Mackenzie, Abaya Martin.
Fonds consists of audio, video, and visual materials created by Basil and Edythe Hartley. Materials include video footage of the Haisla people, which Hartley shot while working in Kitimaat from 1941-1944, a voiceover for the footage which Hartley’s widow, Edythe McClure, created in ca. 1983, a letter, and three photographs of Kitimat people and landscapes. The three audio cassettes all contain the same 1983 recording.
Stone sculptures, a frog figure, and other items on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Two men recovering a house post from SG̱ang Gwaay (Anthony Island). This work was part of the "Ninstints Expedition" to recover eleven totem poles from the area.
Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer carving the frontal plaque of double mortuary pole to be displayed near the Haida house at totem park. The pole (A50032) is now at MOA, on the grounds behind the museum.
File contains Ryckman's typed notes on the history of the Kootenay people and on some Kootenay stories. File also contains 3 handwritten pages (probably by Ryckman's daughter) with what are described as 14 "creeds" of the Kootenay people, translated by a Father De Smet (?) passed by a Father Patterson to Ryckman.
Norman Tait describes his art and totem pole carving at MOA, in an interview by Marjorie Halpin. He “points” to specific pieces at the museum. Pole A50020 is one of the poles they discuss (in the first part of the interview). The interview is on side A of the tape. Side B is blank. Transcription of interview is available in Pam Brown fonds (104-7-06)
File contains images of Wilson's artwork featured in the Transforming Images exhibition held at MOA. The file also contains images of Wilson working on his artwork. The textual records contained in this file include information and background research written by Wilson.
This fonds consists of 201 photographs taken by Virginia Kehoe of various art created by Douglas Cranmer. The photographs include large scale totem pole and canoe carving projects, and smaller scale masks, carvings and artwork projects. There are also several photographs of events attended and photographed by Virginia Kehoe.