Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

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Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

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1-1-E-7 (Oversize 12.7)-a060131
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Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

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1-1-E-7 (Oversize 12.7)-a060132
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Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

010 Ninstints Village painting 1

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Part of Gordon Miller collection

1886 Vancouver fire display

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[1968?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

1886 Vancouver fire display in the pioneer gallery from the Vancouver Centennial Museum's opening exhibition. This exhibition was curated by the Museum of Anthropology.

1933 Christmas and New Years card from Alert Bay Radio

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[1862-1937, predominant 1930-1937]

Part of John Mennie fonds

Item is a 1933 Christmas and New Years card from Alert Bay Radio

1st school for Tibetan boys

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[192-?]

Part of Eric Parker fonds

Item is a negative showing a group of boys standing in front of a small building. Mr. Frank Ludlow, the school master who ran the Gyantse School for Tibetan Boys, is located on the far left. There are mountains visible in the distance.

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

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June 21, 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

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.

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

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June 21, 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

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.

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

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June 21, 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

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?].

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

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June 21, 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

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.

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

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June 21, 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

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.

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

41-1-a060273c
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June 21, 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

Item is a photograph of a procession of people walking down a road in Alert Bay in ceremonial dress (button blankets, headdresses) and regular clothes. Mungo Martin and Daisy Neel lead the group in the front row.

21 June 1958 Alert Bay Centennial Celebrations

41-1-a060271c
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June 21, 1958

Part of Diane Elizabeth Barwick fonds

Item is a photograph of men gathered together for an event celebrating British Columbia's centennial in Alert Bay in 1958. They are sitting down in front of a painted wall and some are wearing ceremonial dress, such as button blankets and woven cedar headbands. A drum and a painted dance screen [thunderbird?] on fabric are also visible. Men in the photograph include: Charles Nowell, Billy Assu, and George Scow.