Image of a dancer and drummers at a potlatch, with the audience visible in the background.

Image of drummers at a potlatch in North Vancouver. In this image, they appear to be preparing for or have just finished playing.

Image of an older man seated at a potlatch in North Vancouver. He appears to be a drummer or dancer.

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."

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."

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.

Mrs. Kitty Ferry's Potlatch, Alert Bay. October 15, 1977.
Side 1

Daisy Sewid and Lorne Smith wedding potlatch. Recorded by Martine de Widerspach-Thor (Reid) at the traditional Big House, Alert Bay.
3 copies. Identifiers are MAN 230a, 230b, 230c, 230d for the 3 copies.

Conversation between Agnes Alfred and her granddaughter Daisy Sewid-Smith., recorded by Martine Reid at Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Sewid's house, Campbell River on February 18, 1975.
Side 1: Agnes Alfred ad Daisy discuss the 1921 "illegal" potlatch at Village Island followed by the arrest of many participants, including herself and her husband.
Side 2: Regular and larger canoes, Agnes' may names and the origins of the names, where she was born, her houses, menstruation, pregnancy, having children, reincarnation, aristocracy, etc.