File 49 - Miscellaneous correspondences regarding the Northwest Coast

• Graphic material

• Textual record

82 pages of textual records
14 photographs : print

This file contains an assortment of photographs, sketches, correspondences and notes.

Photographs include:
• Two (2) images from the National Museum of Canada, one depicting a totem pole and other other a Tlingit house front screen (1900) from ‘Killiswoo’ [Killisnoo].
• Five (5) images of a small soapstone carving.
• 2 images of a sketch made from an unidentified carving.
• An image of a longhouse at Klemtu (1885) taken by G. T. Emmons; a woolly dog appears to be depicted in the photograph.
• Panoramas of Metlakatla (1881; photographer’s name illegible) and Port Simpson [Lax Kw'alaams] (1884; attributed to Maynard).
• An image of the Metlakatla Church, an unidentified woman posing with a bentwood box.

Texts include the following:
• A memo by Wilson Duff commenting on an attached report authored by Mike Kew on ethical research guidelines for working with First Nations. The report was prepared for the Fish Lake Advisory Committee and the “Indians of the Williams Lake District”.
• A manuscript (author not provided) titled “Meanings of totem poles”
• Nine (9) photocopied images of bentwood boxes
• An inventory of Wilson Duff books with the heading “Martine’s list of Wilson’s books”
• A photocopied transcript of an oral history about spirits, provided by Charles F. Newcombe, with glossary of terms in Tlingit.
• A brief text on Haida portrait masks, including images and handwritten notes by Duff.
• A map of Musqueam place names sketched by Mike Kew, with information provided by James Point.
• Handwritten notes taken from multiple texts authored by Victor Turner on ritual symbolism.
• A letter from Ted Twarecki to Wilson Duff with information on “Nootka” [Nuu-chah-nulth] sealing harpoons in the National Museum of Canada collections.
• A letter from Joan Vastokas refers to a paper on the Peterborough site [likely referring to the petroglyph site in that area] sent to Duff with the letter.
• A computer print-out with information about Musqueam wet-site basketry with comments by James Point.
• A valuation and photocopies of cultural objects, including an Edenshaw cane, provided to Peter Downes by Wilson Duff.
• A letter and photocopy of a published text by G. T. Emmons (with G. P. L. Miles) titled “Shamanistic charms”.
• A manuscript by an unidentified author discussing the “Chilcotin Indians” [Tsilhqot’in], attempting to summarize facts about the community from an anthropological-historical perspective. The text appears to be missing pages, based on the incomplete sentence on the last page.