- 131-a040237
- Item
- February 1987
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.
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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.
Subseries consists of files relating to nine special events: the Indian Costume Show (1950), Open House Day (1955), the opening of Totem Park, the Henry Speck (Ozistalis) show (1964), a talk given on aboriginal medicine (1966), Bill Holm’s Indian Dance Group (1967), the opening ceremony for the new museum (1974-1979), the Raven Celebration (1980), the ‘Ksan Poleraising (1980-1981), and the dedication of the museum doors (1976). The records in this subseries consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, memoranda, photographic negatives, ephemera, plans, budgets, financial statements, receipts, a copy of the June 9, 1976 edition of UBC Reports, and a copy of Canadian Art Review VI/I/1979.
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."
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."
Part of Frederich H. Maude fonds
Photograph depicts what Maude has identified as a shrine on Old Zuni Mesa in New Mexico, with rows of Pahos and prayer sticks.
Robert Davidson, Jr. pole raising ceremony
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
File consists of images from a pole raising ceremony in Masset, on Queen Charlotte Island, Haida Gwaii. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. Images show the crowd, speakers (including Davidson), the process of raising the pole, and nearby scenery.
Anthony Carter
File consists of photographs taken during a trip to the Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands) for a pole raising by Robert Davidson. Whilst there, Dr. George MacDonald took Jensen and Powell on a side trip to an old village site.
Recording of potlatch whistles and a short narrative by Robert Davidson
Part of MOA General Media collection
Item is a sound recording made by Potterton Productions titled Potlach People, that features the sound of potlatch whistles followed by a short talk (approximately 1.5 minutes) by artist Robert Davidson. The rest of the recording is made-up of a soundscape featuring whistles and bird calls.
Raising the Mungo Martin Memorial Pole
Part of MOA General Media collection
A group of people gather for the raising of the Mungo Martin Memorial Pole. A number of them prepare to pull it up.
Raising of the Ellen Neel Pole, Stanley Park
R. Davidson [Jr.] pole raising, Masset Q.C.I., stone carvings
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image taken at a pole raising ceremony in Masset. The pole was carved by Robert Davidson, Jr. This image shows a crowd gathered for the event, including a group of three older men seated in the foreground, in what appears to be ceremonial dress.
Anthony Carter