Rites and ceremonies

22-2-a032889
Item
c.1920

Several individuals seem to be walking down to the lake. Some young men are dressed as altar boys. Another group carries a canopy of sorts.

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Upright Stones

47-3-a032775
Item
[189-]

Parte de 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.

Squirrel Dance

131-a040241
Item
February 1987

Parte de 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.

Squirrel Dance

131-a040243
Item
February 1987

Parte de Joi Carlin fonds

A Tait family member wearing a button blanket watches Norman perform his squirrel dance on top of canoe log.

Squirrel Dance

131-a040244
Item
February 1987

Parte de Joi Carlin fonds

A Tait family member wearing a button blanket watches Norman crouched on top of canoe log performing his squirrel dance.

Squirrel Dance

131-a040245
Item
February 1987

Parte de Joi Carlin fonds

Norman Tait performing his squirrel on top of the canoe log.

Joe David and daughter

131-a040254
Item
February 1987

Parte de Joi Carlin fonds

Image is of Joe David wearing a button blanket with his daughter.

Ceremonial dance

92-4-a034620
Item
[ca. 1964-1966]

Parte de Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts the interior of a big house, possibly at Alert Bay, BC. People are dressed in regalia and a ceremonial dance seems to be in progress.

Inside the big house

92-4-a034622
Item
[ca. 1964-1966]

Parte de Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts the interior of a big house, possibly at Alert Bay, BC. People are dressed in regalia and some kind of event is in progress.

Ceremonial performance

92-4-a034655
Item
[ca. 1964-1966]

Parte de Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts several people involved in a performance. A female plays the drum. A male, clad in a bathing suit and regalia, dances on his knee. Another man wearing a headdress, stands at the back of the photo. Spectators are also visible in this outdoor scene.

Woman dancing

92-4-a034657
Item
[ca. 1964-1966]

Parte de 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.

Man dancing

92-4-a034658
Item
[ca. 1964-1966]

Parte de Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a man dancing outdoors. He wears swim trunks and regalia and is accompanied by two male drummers standing behind him. Spectators stand in the background.

Dancers, Capilano Reserve, North Vancouver

25-01-01-a037505
Item
1956

Parte de Anthony Carter fonds

Image from a Pow Wow at the Capilano Reserve in North Vancouver, BC.

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A Sxwayxwey dance

132-1-C-B-a041154
Item
[190-?]

Parte de MOA General Media collection

Image of a Sxwayxwey dance photographed at the beginning of the twentieth century. This photograph was used by Claude Levi-Strauss in his book "The Way of the Masks" and was provided to him by the British Columbia Provincial Museum.

Two Sxwayxwey dancers wearing masks

132-1-C-B-a041155
Item
[19--?]

Parte de 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.

Man and a woman seated with costume

4-02-a033727
Item
[192-?]

Parte de Eric Parker fonds

Item is a photograph showing a man and a woman adorned in white seated at a ceremony.

Florentina Jolliffe (?) in wedding gown

81-03-a033163
Item
[ca. 1959]

Parte de Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of Florentina Jolliffe in her wedding gown. A stamp on the verso of the print indicates that it was printed in 1959.

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Indian Professional Dancers

81-04-a033238
Item
[ca. 1960 - 1990]

Parte de Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

View of Indian professional dancers performing the Swan Dance in their Community Hall. Alert Bay, Cormorant Island, British Columbia. Photo by Eric J. Cooke Photo Productions, Sidney, B. C.