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Photograph depicts the base of a rock formation, with grass and trees, which Maude has identified as El Morro. He is likely referring to the El Morro National Monument, a great standstone promontory. The site is known as A'ts'ina ("place of writing on the rock" in Zuni) or Inscription Rock because of inscriptions that travellers have left on the rocks for several centuries.

Photograph depicts a rock formation, taken from below, which Maude has identified as El Morro or Inscription Rock. He is likely referring to the El Morro National Monument, a great standstone promontory. The site is known as A'ts'ina ("place of writing on the rock" in Zuni).

Photograph depicts a large rock formation, taken from below and at a distance, which Maude has identified as El Morro or Inscription Rock. He is likely referring to the El Morro National Monument, a great standstone promontory. The site is known as A'ts'ina ("place of writing on the rock" in Zuni).

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.

Image is a posed portrait of an elderly person sitting on the ground next to what a appears to be a woven clam harvesting basket. The person is wearing what appears to be a Coast Salish cedar bark hat. The image appears to be a photograph of an original image mounted on a carte de visite. On the verso is the letter "L" inscribed in pencil.

An elder woman crouching on a porch outside of a building

Image is a posed portrait of a seated woman holding a cane and wearing what appear to be wool trade blankets.

Photograph shows a group of elders in what appear to be Haida button blankets and headdresses at the Bill Reid pole raising ceremony in Skidegate.

Long, elevated shot of school field with congregation in middle, proper left.

Long, elevated shot of school field with congregation in middle, proper left. St. Michael’s Indian Residential School appears in background.

Item is a hand tinted glass lantern slide of a building from afar. According to annotation, building was Elkhorn (Washakada) Residential School. The Elkhorn Residential School started as the Washakada Home for Girls and the Kasota Home for Boys were established in the village of Elkhorn, MB in 1888. Following a fire, the school was rebuilt outside the town in 1895. Ongoing financial problems led to a government takeover of the school. It was closed in 1918 but reopened in 1923, under the administration of the Anglican Church’s Missionary Society. Many students came from northern Manitoba. The leaders of The Pas Indian Band made a number of complaints about the conditions at the school, which was eventually closed in 1949. (National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation)

Item is a copy of Plate III in the book "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton.

Image is of the west end of the canoe log. Cedar scraps and blocks cover the ground in image foreground. Isaac shaping on top of the canoe log, unidentified spectators, and museum exterior are partially visible in image background.

Image is of the west end of the canoe log. Isaac refuels chainsaw near the longhouse's west entrance. Cedar scraps and blocks cover the ground in image foreground. Isaac shaping on top of the canoe log and museum exterior are partially visible in image background.

Image is of a large section of wood sawed off from (west) end of canoe log. Part of long house and totem pole are visible in background of image. Unidentified plant in image foreground.

Image is of a large section of wood sawed off from (west) end of canoe log. Parts of museum exterior and longhouse are visible in background of image.

Item is a negative showing a mountainous landscape.

Image is of model canoe from above. Collected shavings and scraps are visible inside model.