- 92-4-a034657
- Item
- [ca. 1964-1966]
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a woman wearing wearing a mix of western clothing and regalia dancing outdoors. Several other woman can be seen dancing behind her. Spectators watch the dance as well.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a woman wearing wearing a mix of western clothing and regalia dancing outdoors. Several other woman can be seen dancing behind her. Spectators watch the dance as well.
Wally & Florentina Jolliffe(?)
Photograph of a bride and groom, standing indoors. Handwritten annotations in the album in which this print was originally housed identify the couple as Wally and Florentina Jolliffe(?). A stamp on the verso if the print indicates that it was printed in 1959.
Mildred Laurie
Wally & Florentina Jolliffe(?)
Photograph of a bride and groom, standing outside in front of a line of cars. Handwritten annotations in the album in which this print was originally housed identify the couple as Wally and Florentina Jolliffe(?). A stamp on the verso of the print indicates that it was printed in 1959.
Mildred Laurie
Part of Frederich H. Maude fonds
Photograph of what Maude has identified as upright stones used in certain A:shiwi (Zuni) ceremonies. In the same inscription, Maude writes that the photograph also shows an man throwing sacred corn meal to the north.
Portrait of an unidentified bride and groom, seated at what appears to be the reception hall. The wedding cake is behind them.
Mildred Laurie
Two Sxwayxwey dancers wearing masks
Part of MOA General Media collection
Image of two Sxwayxwey dancers in a field with two persons in casual clothing, apparently to watch the ceremony. This image may have been taken by Edward S. Curtis.
Subseries includes handwritten translations of the audio and video interviews.
Translations were done by Daisy Sewid-Smith and sent to Martine J. Reid for editing.
Daisy May Sewid-Smith
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
The image is of Norman Tait and two of his sons on the left side of image and Joe David with his daughter tucked under his button blanket to the right side. The little girl clutching a small item is the only one facing the camera while the others are all looking away.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
Norman as he performs his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log. A set of paddles can be seen set against the canoe log. At the right of the image, a Tait family member is holding a skin drum with his back to the camera.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
Image is of two Tait family members holding drums as they chant with their backs to the camera. Further away Norman appears blurred as he performs his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
Image features Norman performing his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log. A family member wearing a button blanket with his back to the camera is beating a skin drum.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
A Tait family member wearing a button blanket watches Norman perform his squirrel dance on top of canoe log.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
A Tait family member wearing a button blanket watches Norman crouched on top of canoe log performing his squirrel dance.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
Norman Tait performing his squirrel on top of the canoe log.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
Image is of Josiah and Mercy watching Norman perform his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
Image is of Tait family members wearing button blankets and beating skin drums while Norman performs his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
Image is of Tait family members, Mercy and Josiah wearing button blankets and watching Norman as he performs his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
Image is of Norman performing his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log while two family members hold and beat skin drums. All three have their back to the camera.
Part of Joi Carlin fonds
Image is of Norman performing his squirrel dance on top of the canoe log while Mercy stands watching him with her back to the camera on the left side of image. Another Tait member appears on the right side of image holding a drum.
Songhees Dancing Sxwayxwey in front of a crowd near Victoria
Part of MOA General Media collection
Image shows an audience on the shoreline and the E & N train trestle watch members of the Songhees First Nation dance the Sxwayxwey for a potlatch. This photograph was likely provided by the Provincial Archives of British Columbia to the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss for his book "The Way of the Masks."