Two totem poles, in foreground and background, with a wire fence between them. Totem in foreground is "Thunderbird on Dzunukwa," carved by Willie & Joe Seaweed in Blunden Harbour in 1931.
Diedre Norman unpacking a mask in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for the exhibition "Man and His World." The mask is by Willie Seaweed.
Diedre Norman unpacking a mask in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for the exhibition "Man and His World." The mask is by Willie Seaweed.
Diedre Norman unpacking a mask in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for the exhibition "Man and His World." The mask is by Willie Seaweed.
Item is a photograph of a crowd of people in ceremonial dress and regular clothes watching two people performing a mask dance. One person wears a crooked beak [four-faced?] mask while the other is wearing a button blanket and headdress. Willie Seewid [Seaweed; Sewid?] is the man on the left looking at the dancer - noted by William Wasden Jr., 2005/02/22.
Item is a photograph of two men performing a dance while a crowd watches. The man on the right in ceremonial dress (button blanket, cedar bark headdress) is Willie Seewid [Seaweed; Sewid?], who carved the crooked beak mask with cedar strips that is worn by the other dancer on the left.
Item is a photograph of four men dancing in ceremonial dress (button blankets, carved [eagle?] mask with cedar strips) performing a ceremonial dance in front of a crowd of on-lookers. The man second from the left is Willie Sewid [Seaweed; Seewid?].