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32. L.R.298.b.2, 10(351)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- L.R.298.b.2, 10(351)
- Title:
- Masked dancers in canoes — Qagyhl (a). Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
- Scope & Content:
- View of three canoes approaching the camera, each with a costumed figure standing in the prow: 'Visitors approaching a village where the winter dance is in progress sometimes array themselves in their ceremonial costumes, and dance while the canoes slowly move shoreward. From left to right the d...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1914
- Extent:
- 1 item
33. L.R.298.b.2, 10(355)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- L.R.298.b.2, 10(355)
- Title:
- Dancing to restore an eclipsed moon — Qagyuhl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
- Scope & Content:
- View of dance in progress, looking upwards towards the figures from a low viewpoint: 'It is thought that an eclipse is the result of an attempt of some creature in the sky to swallow the luminary. In order to compel the monster to disgorge it, the people dance round a smoldering fire of old clot...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1914
- Extent:
- 1 item
34. L.R.298.b.2, 10(334)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- L.R.298.b.2, 10(334)
- Title:
- A Nakoaktok chief's daughter. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
- Scope & Content:
- When the head chief of the Nakoaktok holds a potlatch (a ceremonial distribution of property to all the people), his eldest daughter is thus enthroned, symbolically supported on the heads of her slaves.
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- Unspecified
- Extent:
- 1 item
35. L.R.298.b.2, 10(330)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- L.R.298.b.2, 10(330)
- Title:
- Carved posts at Alert Bay. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
- Scope & Content:
- View of two large totem poles in front of a wood frame house: 'These two heraldic columns at the Nimkish village Yilis, on Cormorant island represent the owner's paternal crest, an eagle, and his maternal crest, a grizzly-bear crushing the head of a rival chief. On the subject of crests and tote...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1914
- Extent:
- 1 item
36. L.R.298.b.2, 10(333)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- L.R.298.b.2, 10(333)
- Title:
- Hamasaka in Tlu'wulahu costume with speaker's staff — Qagyuhl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
- Scope & Content:
- Three-quarter length standing portrait: 'The principal chief of the Qagyuhl is depicted in a 'button blanket' (which is simply a woolen blanket ornamented with hundreds of large mother-of-pearl buttons), cedar-bark neck-ring, and cedar-bark head-band. His right hand grasps a shaman's rattle, and...
- Collection Area:
- Printed Collections
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Date Range:
- 1914
- Extent:
- 1 item