Forest DeWitt (Tlinget) dancing at Totem Bite [Bight], Ketchikan, Alaska
- 134-a040191c
- Item
- 24 Aug. 1972
Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds
Forest DeWitt (Tlinget) dancing at Totem Bite [Bight], Ketchikan, Alaska
Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds
Giant rock oyster pole #15 (original), Saxman Park, Ketchikan, Alaska
Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds
File mainly contains historical images of Haida and Tlingit villages and totem poles located on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia and Alaska. There are also images of Haida and Tlingit peoples dressed in regalia. Other photos include images of Haida and Tlingit artifacts, such as bentwood boxes and carvings, housed in various museums around the world. There are also images of a modern day ceremony in front of some totem poles and long houses. The textual records include photocopies of images of totem poles and Haida and Tlingit villages.
Ketchikan and Kitwancool Totems and Views
Part of Minn Sjolseth fonds
File consists of slides depicting totems and views labeled as in Kispiox, Kitwancool, Ketchikan, Haida, Kitseguckla, Skedans, and Kingcome. File also consists of slides documenting two of Minn Sjolseth's paintings entitled "En av de Siste" (sp?) and "Peace."
File mainly contains historical images of the Nisga'a villages, peoples, and of Nisga'a totem poles. Other images are of modern day Nisga'a totem poles housed in museums in Canada and the United States. The textual records contained in this file are catalogue cards which provide some of the photograph's context, providing information such as the location of the photograph, the people in the photographs, which museum and/or archive collection the image belongs to, and/or the image's catalogue number.
Series consists of photographs documenting events in various communities throughout British Columbia and Washington State. These include community photographs in Mt. Currie; the Salish Linguistic Conference in Oman, Washington State; a Robert Davidson Pole Raising; coverage of NWC artifacts at the National Museum of Copenhagen in Denmark; coverage of 1992 Nuxalk Potlatch at Bella Coola for Canadian Museum of Civilization; and photographs of a Haida bentwood box.
Between working on language and education projects, Jensen was often hired by communities to document important events, such as pole-raisings, conferences and potlatches. This series consists of the photographs taken at those events.
People watching Tlinget dancers at Totem Bite [Bight], Ketchikan
Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds
Part of Edward F. Meade fonds
Series contains graphic materials created by E. F. Meade, L. M. Greene, Dr. Akladakov (?), Arthur Goodland, Louis Poitras, Dick Pattinson, C. Gades, Dr. Foskett, and Morley Raven, and collected by E. F. Meade while documenting and studying petroglyphs and pictographs in the West Coast.
Series also contains some graphic materials documenting petroglyphs outside of Canada, including the United States of America, Russia, Scotland, and Guyana.
Saxmen Tlinget dancing at Totem Bite [Bight], Ketchikan, Alaska
Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds
Saxmen Tlinget dancing at Totem Bite [Bight], Ketchikan, Alaska
Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds
Saxmen Tlinget dancing at Totem Bite [Bight], Ketchikan, Alaska
Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds
Part of Edward F. Meade fonds
File contains graphic materials depicting petroglyphs and pictographs in the coast of British Columbia, the west coast of the United States of America, Scotland, Russia, and Guyana. According to annotations, some of the photographs were taken by Dr. Akladakov (?) and Arthur Goodland.
Tlinget dancer and house post at Totem Bite [Bight], Ketchikan, Alaska
Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds
The majority of this file contains historical images of the Tlingit and Tahltan First Nations and their respective villages. The other images are of Tlingit or Tahltan artifacts housed in various museums in Canada and the United States. The historic images are of Tlingit or Tahltan villages which include images of Northwest Coast architecture, houses posts and totem poles, canoes, and other household items such as bowls, weavings, and bentwood boxes. There are also some images of the Tlingit people in regalia. The textual records contained in this file is a paper titled "The History of the Babine Carriers," written by Wilfred Adam for the class Education 479, Cross Cultural Education.
Totem pole and house at Old Kasaan
Part of MOA General Media collection
Image of an old house and totem pole belonging to Chief Son-i-hat at Old Kasaan. This photograph is likely from a book by Marius Barbeau or Edward Linnaeus Keithahn.