Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

132-1-C-A-a040325
Item
1970

A group of people gather for the raising of the Mungo Martin Memorial Pole. A number of them prepare to pull it up.

Recording of potlatch whistles and a short narrative by Robert Davidson

132-3-B-1-MAN-036
Item
July 1978

Item is a sound recording made by Potterton Productions titled Potlach People, that features the sound of potlatch whistles followed by a short talk (approximately 1.5 minutes) by artist Robert Davidson. The rest of the recording is made-up of a soundscape featuring whistles and bird calls.

Songhees Dancing Sxwayxwey in front of a crowd near Victoria

132-1-C-B-a041257
Item
1895

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image shows an audience on the shoreline and the E & N train trestle watch members of the Songhees First Nation dance the Sxwayxwey for a potlatch. This photograph was likely provided by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks."

Songhees Dancing Sxwayxwey in front of a crowd near Victoria

132-1-C-B-a041147
Item
1895

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image shows an audience on the shoreline and the E & N train trestle watch members of the Songhees First Nation dance the Sxwayxwey for a potlatch. This photograph was likely provided by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks."

The Killer Whale

132-1-C-B-a040907
Item
1953

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display for the exhibit "Northwest Coast themes and variations." Shows several items featuring the killer whale including a drum, two masks, two feast dishes, rattles, model totem poles, and other objects.

Two Sxwayxwey dancers wearing masks

132-1-C-B-a041155
Item
[19--?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image of two Sxwayxwey dancers in a field with two persons in casual clothing, apparently to watch the ceremony. This image may have been taken by Edward S. Curtis.

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