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21. L.R.298.b.2, 10(331)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(331)
Title:
Qa'hila — Koprino. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Head-and-shoulders full-face portrait: 'This young chief of an almost extinct tribe resident on Quatsino sound, near the northwestern end of Vancouver island, is wearing one of the nose-ornaments formerly common among Kwakiutl nobility. The dentalium shells of which they consisted were obtained ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

22. L.R.298.b.2, 10(340)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(340)
Title:
In Kwakiutl waters. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
In a characteristic setting is shown a fleet of the beautifully modelled Kwakiutl canoes, manned by crews in aboriginal dress.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

23. L.R.298.b.2, 10(344)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(344)
Title:
Wedding party — Qagyuhl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View at the water's edge, with the wedding party in the two canoes drawn up at the shore: 'After the wedding ceremony at the bride's village the party returns to the husband's home. The newly married pair stand on a painted "bride's seat" in the stern of the canoe, and the bridegroom's sister or...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

24. L.R.298.b.2, 10(356)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(356)
Title:
Sailing — Qagyuhl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View looking towards a group of canoes under sail: 'The canoe in the foreground, fifty-five feet in length overall, is probably the largest native craft now in existence on the North Pacific coast, and it is doubtful if any canoe of greater size was ever made in this region.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

25. L.R.298.b.2, 10(358)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(358)
Title:
Masked dancers — Qagyuhl. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
The plate shows a group of masked and costumed performers in the winter ceremony. The chief who is holding the dance stands at the left, grasping a speaker's staff and wearing cedar-bark neck-ring and head-band and a few of the spectators are visible at the right. At the extreme left is seen a p...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

26. L.R.298.b.2, 10(359)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(359)
Title:
Passing a dreaded point. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Showing a canoe paddling past a sheer-sided headland: 'Precipitous cliffs such as this are especially feared in rough weather, and the steersman usually supplicates the genius loci under the title of Numas ('old man'). '
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

27. L.R.298.b.2, 10(339)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(339)
Title:
On the beach — Nakoaktok. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Full-length standing portrait of a woman with her clam basket, at the water's edge: 'This high-born clam-digger is wearing aboriginal costume consisting of a cedar-bark blanket, used as a robe, a cedar-bark rain-cape, a spruce-root "chief's hat", and woollen ankle-bands.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

28. L.R.298.b.2, 10(350)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(350)
Title:
Nimkish village at Alert Bay . Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View looking along the facades of the timber frame houses, each with carved totem poles in front: 'The figure at the bottom of the column in the foreground, with the painting on the front of the house, represents a raven. When a feast or a dance is to be held in this house, the guests enter thro...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

29. L.R.298.b.2, 10(353)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(353)
Title:
Qagyuhl village at Fort Rupert . Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
View of wood framed houses, the nearest with a large painted totem pole in front: 'This village of Tsahes was founded in 1849, when the tribe abandoned Kalokwis, on Turnour island, in order to be near the Hudson's Bay Company post which was then established at Fort Rupert, on Vancouver island. T...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

30. L.R.298.b.2, 10(364)

Reference (shelfmark):
L.R.298.b.2, 10(364)
Title:
Chief's daughter — Nakoaktok. Photographer: Curtis, Edward Sheriff
Scope & Content:
Half-length seated right half-profile portrait of a woman, wearing a wide-brimmed woven hat and beaten metal earrings and bracelets.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 item

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