Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Resting at the water's edge

94-a034798
Item
[1946 - 1948]

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts three people resting at the edge of the water. Mountains and trees across the water are also visible.

Residential School, Alert Bay, B.C.

41-1-a060278c
Item
[ca.1947-1950]

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

Item is a photograph of the entrance to St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay, which was founded in 1929 by the Anglican Church of Canada. Two painted totem poles are visible in front of the school, with thunderbird, [grizzly bear?], and copper forms.

Residential school

30-30-01-30-01-09-a039139
Item
[1862-1937, predominant 1930-1937]

Part of John Mennie fonds

Item is a photograph of St. Michael's Indian Residential School. An unidentified individual and the harbour appear in the foreground.

Residential school

30-30-01-30-01-09-a039143
Item
[1862-1937, predominant 1930-1937]

Part of John Mennie fonds

Item is a photograph of St. Michael's Indian Residential School. Harbour appears in foreground

Residential school

30-30-01-30-01-09-a039141
Item
[1862-1937, predominant 1930-1937]

Part of John Mennie fonds

Item is a photograph of St. Michael's Indian Residential School. Unidentified students are walking towards front entrance

Residential school

30-30-01-30-01-09-a039138
Item
[1862-1937, predominant 1930-1937]

Part of John Mennie fonds

Item is a photograph of St. Michael's Indian Residential School. Lower portion of photograph is inscribed, "INDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL, ALERT BAY. B.C."

Residential school

30-30-01-30-01-09-a039142
Item
[1862-1937, predominant 1930-1937]

Part of John Mennie fonds

Item is a photograph of St. Michael's Indian Residential School

Residential school

30-30-01-30-01-09-a039137
Item
[1862-1937, predominant 1930-1937]

Part of John Mennie fonds

Item is a photograph of St. Michael's Indian Residential School

Residential school

30-30-01-30-01-09-a039140
Item
[1862-1937, predominant 1930-1937]

Part of John Mennie fonds

Item is a photograph of St. Michael's Indian Residential School. Unidentified students and staff are posing on the exterior steps.

Researcher studying in office

132-1-C-B-a040993
Item
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Image of a researcher with slides and a lightbox, studying.

Representatives waiting for ceremony

132-1-C-C-a041356
Item
30-May-76

Part of MOA General Media collection

Representatives waiting for the ceremony to begin at the opening of the new Museum of Anthropology building. This photograph includes: Harry Hawthorn (viewer's far right), Audrey Hawthorn (3rd left of Harry), possibly Walter Koerner left of Audrey, and Michael Ames (4th left of Audrey).

Representations of Haida shaman figures

132-1-C-B-a040706
Item
1965

Part of MOA General Media collection

Display for the exhibit "The Shaman of the Northwest Coast." Shows prints of Haida figures.

(Replicas)?, mortuary poles (Haida), dwelling house and sea wolf, Totem Park, UBC, Vancouver

134-a040107c
Item
7 Aug. 1972

Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds

MOA Object ID numbers correspond to poles in the image from left to right.

A50030 carved by Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer (1961-62) as the frontal pole for the front of the Haida house, at the University of British Columbia, for display in Totem Park. Moved to the new Museum of Anthropology grounds in 1978. Pole was removed from the Haida House in 2000-09 and placed in a greenhouse tent for conservation treatment and drying. Pole was then re-raised in the Great Hall of the Museum on Oct. 31, 2002.

(Replica)?, Haida sea wolf #2, Totem Park - UBC, Vancouver

134-a040105c
Item
7 Aug. 1972

Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds

The Wasgo is a monster of Haida legend that had the ability to transform between wolf and sea creature. Carved and painted by Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer in 1962.