Image of the houseposts and beam of what once was a longhouse in Quatsino, BC, on the north end of Vancouver Island. These posts appear to be the same as posts now houses at the Museum of Anthropology (museum item number A50009 a-c). The poles are described on the museum's catalogue: "Two upright posts and crossbeam that were part of a large interior house frame (also see records d-f and g-h). The uprights depict sea lions carved in high relief and painted (parts a-b). Their heads are equal size to their bodies. Both part a and b have an eagle in profile within the sea lions front flippers. Part a has a top portion of a face painted on the back of its head that is part of a sisiutl that runs down the seal lions back and into its hind flipper with a serpent's head in each. The cross-beam (part c) is painted and carved as a supernatural double-headed sea lion. All parts are painted black and white with Northwest Coast stylized forms... The Klix'ken (sea lion) House was commissioned by Tza'kyius around 1906, and was the last old style house erected in Xwatis. The beams and figures stood as part of a house frame, and acted as structural supports. Figures represented on house frames were supernatural beings which the family living in the house had the right, through their history and origins, to represent."

Image depicts exterior view of the Mountain House, frontal pole, house post with ceremonial entrance, and mortuary pole located on Moresby Island in Haida Gwaii, B. C. In the foreground is a canoe. Image appears to be reproduction of a039349.

An image of two Kwakwaka'wakw house posts with house frames at UBC. These items are currently part of the Museum of Anthropology's collection.

House posts laid out or standing in the new Museum of Anthropology building during the process of moving in.

House posts laid out or standing in the new Museum of Anthropology building during the process of moving in.

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of the inside of a building with two house posts. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken in Alert Bay.

House posts stand in the new Museum of Anthropology during the process of moving in.

House posts stand in the new Museum of Anthropology during the process of moving in.

House posts stand in the new Museum of Anthropology during the process of moving in.

House posts in the new Museum of Anthropology building during the moving in process.

House posts stand in the new Museum of Anthropology during the process of moving in.

House posts stand in the new Museum of Anthropology during the process of moving in.

House posts stand in the new Museum of Anthropology during the process of moving in.

Two Haida chiefs wearing blankets and headdresses.

Haida chief wearing button blanket

Photograph of an elder Haida woman

Image of a sewn corner of a bentwood box. This image may have been from an exhibit at the old Museum of Anthropology dealing with Northwest coast technology.

Item is a glass lantern slide of an Indigenous man dressed up in ceremonial clothing.