Cultural groups

Carving a pole

92-1-a034540
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Doug Cranmer in the early stages of carving a totem pole.

Carving a pole

92-1-a034542
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a carver, possibly Godfrey Hunt, carving on a totem pole. He is possibly using a file.

Carving a partially finished totem pole

92-1-a034494
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a man, possibly Douglas Cranmer, carving on a partially finished totem pole as a man and woman look on. Vintage cars are visible in the background.

Carving a canoe

92-1-a034651
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a partially completed canoe, filled with water outside. A carver, possibly Godfrey Hunt, is also shown.

Carving a canoe

92-1-a034650
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a partially completed canoe, filled with water outside.

Carver with Feast Dish in Alert Bay

Part of Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of a carver with a feast dish in front of a house. There are five children and one adult in the background. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken in Alert Bay.

Captain Carpenter research and paper

104-7-05
File
[ca. 1992]

Part of Pam Brown fonds

Paper written by Pam Windsor (Brown)

Cape Mudge 1970 1979

144-1-8
File
1970-1975

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."

Cape Mudge

1-2-V-1 (12.3)
File
1990-1993

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

File contains images of masks, bowls, and textiles. In addition are correspondence with Joy Inglis and Marie Mauze.

Canoes

1-4-C-14 (67.6; 68.1-2)
File
[199-?]

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

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.

Canoe making: the Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island

1-4-A-54 (25.5)
File
[198-?]

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

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.

Canoe label

1-4-A-34 (24.5)
File
[ca. 1985]

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

File contains information about the Northwest Coast canoe including how they're made, their importance, and their history. There are also photocopied images of canoes from the Nuu-chah-nulth and the Kwakwaka'wakw communities.

Canoe in carving workshop

92-1-a034648
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts an interior room used for carving. A canoe is visible in this image.

Canoe filling with water

92-1-a034634
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a partially carved canoe outdoors being filled with water from a hose.

Canoe drawing

92-1-a034646
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a drawing and text representing plans for a canoe, possibly the Nootka canoe carved by Douglas Cranmer for the Royal Museum of British Columbia in Victoria, B. C.