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Image of a Chilkat blanket ca. 1800, from Vancouver Island, hanging in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.

Image of a Chilkat blanket ca. 1800, from Vancouver Island, hanging in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.

Image of a Chilkat blanket ca. 1800, from Vancouver Island, hanging in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.

Chilkat blanket from the Museum of Anthropology on display at the Vancouver Centennial Museum for its opening exhibition.

Chilkat blanket from the Museum of Anthropology on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World."

Chilkat blanket and other items from the Museum of Anthropology on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World."

A Chilkat blanket, frontlet, and other regalia on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Chilkat blanket, feast dishes, and spoons on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Chilkat blanket, feast dishes, and spoons on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of landscape with a the Choutla Residential School, Carcross, Yukon. Item is a duplicated of item no. 875, fonds 008 Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada (MSCC) fonds, from the Anglican Church of Canada General Synod Archives. In 1903 students from the school at Forty Mile, Yukon, were moved to a small school in Carcross. In 1911 the federal government built the Choutla school. The school had a reputation for poor health, harsh discipline, poor food, and unpleasant living quarters. In the 1940s, the principal admitted to strapping students so severely that they had to be held down. The school burned down in 1939 and was rebuilt in 1944. A new school was built in 1953. It closed in 1969. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Image of a man unpacking objects for display in Montreal, possibly at Man and His World exhibit at the site of Expo 67. Many of the objects appear to be masks.

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of a Christmas tree with presents in the corner of a room with decorations. There are two sitting children visible in the corner of the photograph.

Item is an image of a church. According to annotations, church belonged to the indigenous community in the area (probably from the Cree First Nation or Metis) and photograph was taken at York Factory, Manitoba

Pioneer display from the Vancouver Centennial Museum's opening exhibition. This exhibition was curated by the Museum of Anthropology.

Pioneer display from the Vancouver Centennial Museum's opening exhibition. This exhibition was curated by the Museum of Anthropology.

Kitchen implements from the pioneer gallery of the Vancouver Centennial Museum's opening exhibition. This exhibition was curated by the Museum of Anthropology.

Pioneer gallery from the Vancouver Centennial Museum's opening exhibition. This exhibition was curated by the Museum of Anthropology.

Saddle from the pioneer gallery of the Vancouver Centennial Museum's opening exhibition. This exhibition was curated by the Museum of Anthropology.

Pioneer gallery from the Vancouver Centennial Museum's opening exhibition. This exhibition was curated by the Museum of Anthropology.