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Kwakwaka'wakw With digital objects
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Elder in ceremonial dress

Image depicts a male elder wearing regalia that includes a black tunic with some kind of tassels on the tunic front and on his boots. Other people, both elders and young people, also appear in the picture, wearing regalia. Picture was taken outdoors and a man wearing a button blanket speaks into a microphone.

Entrance to Gallery 3

The entrance to Gallery 3 (now the O'Brian Gallery) from the Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology. House posts and totem poles are also visible.

Facial closeup of freestanding carving

Image depicts a closeup of the head of a freestanding carving. Painted in black, white, and red, it depicts a face with prominent ears, eyes, and mouth. An unpainted section can be seen on the top of the head. See also items a34570 and a34572 for other views of this carving.

Feast dish

Image of a feast dish. This dish is now part of MOA's object collection.

Anthony Carter

Felled tree

Image depicts a tree with bark intact. The tree sits on some sort of support.

Finishing touches on the pole

Image depicts a nearly completed totem pole with a man, possibly Douglas Cranmer, working on it. Vintage cars are visible in the distance.

Freestanding carving, side view

Image depicts a side view of a freestanding carving. Painted in black, white, and red, it depicts a face with prominent ears, eyes, and mouth. In this view the white vest and hands are also visible. An unpainted section can be seen on the top of the head. See also items a34570 and a34571 for other views of this carving.

Freestanding figure with white feet

Image depicts a frontal view of a freestanding figure with white feet. The figure also has hands raised to chest height and wears a white vest decorated with crests. See also items a34571 and a34572 for other views of this carving.

Frog mask carving

Image depicts a completed mask. The figure, a frog, has a green and white face with red nose and lips with twined cedar bark for hair.

Frog mask from left side

Image depicts a side view of a completed frog mask. The head is green and black, with white used to highlight eyes and red for nose and mouth. The hair may be composed of braided cedar fibrers.

From all over the place, raising totem in Alert Bay

Image of a totem pole in Alert Bay, BC, at the grave of the Kwakiutl Chief Mungo Martin. The pole was carved to honor the Chief. This image shows the pole right after it has been raised, with the ropes used to raise it still attached. Additional information and images of this pole are featured on pages 28-33 of Carter's book "From History's Locker."

Anthony Carter

George Cadwallader and others in ceremonial regalia

George Cadwallader and other community members in ceremonial regalia at Alert Bay. Another possible caption for this slide identifies the figure in the Chilkat robe as "Dusty Cadwallader". This photograph was likely taken by Marjorie Halpin on the occasion of her visit to Alert Bay for the memorial of Mungo Martin.

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