Material Culture

Don Bain Massive Carvings Documentation Project

133-01-05-C
Sub-séries
[1991?]-[1996?]

Parte deCollections Care, Management and Access fonds

Subseries consists of records collected or created by Don Bain during the course of his Massive Carvings Documentation Project. This project took place in the early to mid 1990s. The Massive Carvings Documentation Project was intended to compile information directly related to the poles and massive carvings in the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) collection into a set of Totem Pole Files. The Totem Pole Files were intended to be accessible to MOA staff, volunteers, students, and the general public. The subseries is divided into two sub subseries:

a. Totem pole files
b. Working files

Transforming image research photos

1-1-MMM-b-2 (37.2-3)
Dossiê
[ca.2000]

Parte deWilliam McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

File contains images used for research during the image recovery project and the Transforming Image Exhibit.

Unfinished canoe

92-1-a034631
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Parte deVirginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a partially carved canoe outdoors.

Feast dish

25-04-12-a038516
Item
[197?]

Parte deAnthony Carter fonds

Image of a feast dish. This dish is now part of MOA's object collection.

Sin título

Frog mask carving

92-2-a034544
Item
[ca. 1965 - 1970]

Parte deVirginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a completed mask. The figure, a frog, has a green and white face with red nose and lips with twined cedar bark for hair.

View of the Great Hall from the O'Brian Gallery

132-1-C-C-a041568
Item
1976?

Parte deMOA General Media collection

View of the Great Hall from the O'Brian Gallery in the Museum of Anthropology. A carving of an ancestor figure is visible on the viewer's right.

Abaya Martin weaving

132-1-C-A-a040322
Item
[ca. 1950]

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Abaya Martin weaving a Kwakwaka'wakw version of a Chilkat blanket. The loom was made by Mungo Martin.

Abaya Martin weaving

132-1-C-A-a040333
Item
[ca. 1950]

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Abaya Martin weaving a Kwakwaka'wakw version of a Chilkat blanket. The loom was made by Mungo Martin.

Drawing of a Thunderbird and a Killer Whale by Mungo Martin

132-1-C-A-a040337
Item
[197-?]

Parte deMOA General Media collection

A drawing of a Thunderbird and a Killer Whale by Mungo Martin with annotations to the left of the animals. Mungo Martin produced this image while convalescing in St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver as he had fallen ill while restoring totem poles at UBC.

An eagle painting by Roy Hanuse

132-1-C-A-a040354
Item
[1970?]

Parte deMOA General Media collection

An eagle painting by Roy Hanuse.

Potlatch items on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040413
Item
1969 or 1970

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Items from the Museum of Anthropology including house posts, feast dishes, a bentwood box, and model totem poles, on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Frog mask from left side

92-2-a034545
Item
[ca.1965 - 1970]

Parte deVirginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a side view of a completed frog mask. The head is green and black, with white used to highlight eyes and red for nose and mouth. The hair may be composed of braided cedar fibrers.

Red Border Eye Design

92-3-a034547
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Parte deVirginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a painting with five crests--four resemble bird heads and surround a centre figure that resembles some kind of mammal. The black on white painting is matted with a red border. Slide notes say, "Sh 60 Ap 5-6"

Two wood carvings, view three

92-2-a034550
Item
[ca. 1965 - 1970]

Parte deVirginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts two rectangular wooden panels carved with a variety of figures and crests. Central to both carvings is a figure with large ovoid eyes. This view shows the top carving littered with what looks to be sawdust. These may be the McMichael lintels.

Wood relief carving

92-2-a034552
Item
[ca. 1965 - 1970]

Parte deVirginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a wood relief carving that depicts several figures and crests. The central figure is a seated human. Notes indicate this carving may be from Bella Bella. Additional notes say, "shutter 15 aperature 2.8"