First Nations

File contains images of bentwood boxes housed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now the Canadian Museum of History). The textual records contained in this file are copies of catalogue records.

Campbell River, Agnes Alfred and Dorothy Hawkins

138-02-01-03 (MAN 222 a - e)
Item
December 1979

Part of Paddling to Where I Stand collection

Item is a recording of Agnes Alfred and Dorothy Hawkins. Item was recorded by Daisy Sewid-Smith at Campbell River, prior to Martine Reid involvement. Item was translated by Daisy Sewid-Smith in 1979.
Item includes four cassette tapes with Agnes Alfred and Dorothy Hawkins talking about love songs; the Hamatsa mask song; permission to use the chant of the Nimpkish, of the Kwakiutl; and their life story.
Item was numbered by creator with roman number II.

Agnes Alfred

Campbell River: Daisy Smith and Agnes Alfred

138-02-01-02 (MAN 221a - d)
Item
December 11, 1970

Part of Paddling to Where I Stand collection

Item is a recording of Daisy Sewid-Smith and Sgnes Alfred. Item was recorded by Daisy Sewid-Smith at Campbell River, prior to Martine Reid involvement. Item was translated by Daisy Sewid-Smith in 1979.
Item includes four cassette tapes with Agnes Alfred and Dorothy Hawkins talking about love songs; the Hamatsa mask song; permission to use the chant of the Nimpkish, of the Kwakiutl; and their life story.
Item was numbered by creator with roman number II.

Daisy May Sewid-Smith

Butler Point petroglyph

44-02-01-a043613
Item
September 1968

Part of Edward F. Meade fonds

Item is an image of pictographs and petroglyphs. According to annotations, image was taken by E. F. Meade.

Burial Ground 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 an Indigenous burial site. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken in Alert Bay.

Burial Ground 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 an house and Indigenous burial site. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken near Alert Bay.

Burial Ground 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 totem in a burial ground. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken in Alert Bay.

Burial Boxes 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 tree with a burial boxes. Item is similar to item no. 55, fonds 008 Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds, from the Anglican Church of Canada General Synod Archives.

Building remnants, Mamalilikulla, Village Island

25-03-17-a038239
Item
July 1973

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of parts of an old building, possibly a longhouse, at the Mamalilikulla village on Village Island, off of northern Vancouver Island.

Anthony Carter

Building remnants, Mamalilikulla, Village Island

25-03-17-a038243
Item
1973

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of parts of an old building, possibly a longhouse, at the Mamalilikulla village on Village Island, off of northern Vancouver Island.

Anthony Carter

Broken totem pole

94-a034823
Item
1948

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts a part of a fallen totem pole, surrounded by foliage. The animal may be a wolf; it depicts teeth in an open mouth.

Bridge, Skeena? River

11-02-a032691_2
Item
[ca. 1889 - 1891]

Part of Robert Reford fonds

Item is an image of a bridge over a river. According to annotations, the bridge was made by the indigenous peoples in the area and the location may be the Skeena River.

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