First Nations

Carving a totem pole

92-1-a034470
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Douglas Cranmer in the early stages of carving a totem pole. The pole is outside.

Carving a totem pole

92-1-a034643
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a carver, possibly Douglas Cranmer, working inside on what may be a totem pole. The carving is still in the early stages and it is difficult to tell what will be depicted.

Carving a totem pole

92-1-a034471
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Douglas Cranmer in the early stages of carving a totem pole. The pole is outside. A chain saw is visible on the ground.

Carving a pole, early stages

92-1-a034475
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Godfrey Hunt carving a totem pole. The pole is outside. He is using a knife to cut a pre-marked design on the pole.

Carving a pole with a chain saw

92-1-a034472
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Douglas Cranmer in the early stages of carving a totem pole. The pole is outside. He is preparing to use a chain saw to make the early cuts to a pole. Markings are visible, showing where he will cut.

Carving a pole

92-1-a034511
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a pole that has been partially carved. A carver, probably Doug Cranmer, uses an adze.

Carving a pole

92-1-a034524
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Doug Cranmer carving a nearly completed pole. Visible figures include Thunderbird and Bear; this may be the St. Catherines, Ontario Centennial Confederation pole, carved in 1967.

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 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 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.

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.