- 92-3-a034611
- Item
- [ca. 1964 - 1967]
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a painting of a sea creature, possibly a whale. The painting is done in black, red and blue on white paper.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a painting of a sea creature, possibly a whale. The painting is done in black, red and blue on white paper.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a painting of a sea eagle inside an ovoid form. Additional notes indicate this painting was made by Douglas Cranmer in 1964 or 1965.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a sea gull mask, painted in brown, tan, white and gray. The mask is photographed outdoors on top of a mat.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a side view of a sea gull mask. The bottom section of a totem pole is visible on the right side of the photo.
Side view of totem in front of door
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a side view of a small-scale totem pole in front of a door. The pole depicts several figures--possibly three Thunderbirds with a seated human figure at the base. See items a034476 - a034482 for other views of this pole.
Signing the Bella Coola Treaty
Image of one person signing a paper. More people on the background.
Handwritten annotation on back "Signing the Bella Coola Treaty Jun. 1987"
Item was originally numbered by creator with number 114.
Martine J. Reid
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts the mythical serpent Sisiul, painted in black on white paper. Additional notes say, "Shutter 50 Ap. 2.8__4"
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts two carvings entitled Slave Killers. The photograph was taken outside and the two figures appear to be getting ready to throw a black object.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a carved head. The eyes on the face are shut; the mouth is open in an o-shape.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a carved head. The eyes on the face are shut; the mouth is open in an o-shape. This view depicts the entire face.
Small scale totem, midsection closeup
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a midsection closeup of a small-scale totem pole in front of a door. Visible are two figures, one possibly a seated human perched on top of what may be a Thunderbird. Each figure seems to be sitting in a corner. See items a034476 - a034482 for other views of this pole.
Small scale totem, side and front view
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a side/front view of a small-scale totem pole in front of a door. The top two figures have long beaks, a third figure has a beak that is bent downward, and a human figure is seated at the bottom. Each winged figure is protecting a smaller figure. Two are possibly human and the third appears to be a frog. See items a034476 - a034482 for other views of this pole.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a side view of a small-scale totem pole in front of a door. The top two figures have long beaks, a third figure has wings but no visible beak, and a human figure is seated at the bottom. See items a034476 - a034482 for other views of this pole.
Small scale totem, top section closeup
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a top section closeup of a small-scale totem pole in front of a door. Visible are two beaked figures, with another seated figure. See items a034476 - a034482 for other views of this pole.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a small scale totem pole which seems to be situated in a cemetery. The bottom figure seems to be human and the top an eagle.
St. Michael's Indian Residential School, Alert Bay
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay. A similar image is printed on page 35 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "Two fine old carved columns stand guard in front of the school."
Anthony Carter
St. Michael's Indian Residential School, Alert Bay
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay. A similar image is printed on page 35 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "Two fine old carved columns stand guard in front of the school."
Anthony Carter
Staff research, publications and productions
Subseries consists of material produced by museum staff, among them Wilson Duff, Harry and Audrey Hawthorn, Marjorie Halpin, and Gloria Cranmer Webster. There is extensive material on Audrey Hawthorn’s Art of the Kwakiutl Indians. Included in this subseries are ca. 2000 photographs which were collected for possible use in this book. Photographs are numbered A38-A17206 with many numbers missing throughout. The majority of photographs are of wooden masks, but they are also of bowls, bentwood boxes, paddles, rattles, totem poles, talking sticks, headdresses and frontlets, wooden figures and miniatures, whistles, spoons, silver bracelets, argillite carvings, button blankets, chilkat blankets, cedar head and neck rings, woodworking tools, stone tools, and fish hooks. Other record forms included in this subseries include correspondence, notes and published materials.
Staff wrapping a totem pole in padding
Part of MOA General Media collection
Workers stand on a scaffold to wrap a totem pole in padding to prepare it for being moved from its position in Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building. This totem pole was originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by Mungo Martin.