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Image of Wilson Duff, Harry Hawthorn, Bill Reid and John Smyly under a shelter on Skunnggwaii llanas (Anthony Island). The image was taken during the Ninstints expedition to retrieve 11 totem poles from the area.

Members of the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee, Bill Reid (wearing aht) and Wilson Duff, inspecting a house post on Anthony Island. This house post was removed and brought to the Museum of Anthropology.

Front view of a Dzunuk'wa totem pole with a thunderbird grasping its head. This totem pole is located on Cormorant Island, in Alert Bay, and was carved by Willie and Joe Seaweed as a memorial for Billie Moon.

Profile view of a totem pole of Dzunuk'wa. This totem pole is located on Cormorant Island, in Alert Bay, and was carved by Willie and Joe Seaweed as a memorial for Billie Mood. Photograph may have been taken by Wilson Duff.

View of the face of a Dzunuk'wa sculpture. Photograph may have been taken by Wilson Duff.

Image of the face of a Dzunuk'wa sculpture, possibly part of a totem pole. Photograph may have been taken by Wilson Duff.

Image of Bill Reid and Robert Davidson standing next to wooden carving in progress. Information on the back of the image credits the photograph to Wilson Duff, Museum of Anthropology curator. The date and place written on the image is 1968 in Montreal.

Image of the base figures of a totem pole. Photograph may have been taken by Wilson Duff.

Image of the base figure of a totem pole. Photograph may have been taken by Wilson Duff.

The back of a photograph of Wilson Duff, Harry Hawthorn, Bill Reid and John Smyly under a shelter on Skunnggwaii llanas (Anthony Island). The image was taken during the Ninstints expedition to retrieve 11 totem poles from the area. Back of item #a035183-1.

Item is a photograph of a procession of people (men, women, children) in ceremonial dress (button blankets, headdresses) walking away from the ferry terminal dock [?] in Alert Bay. The procession is led by Mungo Martin and Daisy Neel. A man dressed in regular clothes, smoking a pipe looks on from the left.

Item is a photograph of three young women, and two young girls standing in ceremonial dress (button blankets; carved and painted [wolf?] mask; and headdresses made of woven cedar, weasel(?), abalone, and eagle feathers). They are gathered for an event celebrating British Columbia's centennial in Alert Bay in 1958. Daisy Neel is in the centre wearing the frontlet and her twin sisters are the young girls in front of her. Emma Sewid [Seewid; Seaweed?] and Mabel Sewid [Seewid; Seaweed?] are on either sides of them.

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?].

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.