Box 1

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Contains 56 black and white photographs by C.F. Newcombe in Victoria, B.C. Subjects include totems, emblems, whale crest, raven crest, the Alert Bay graveyard, Fort Rupert, Tenaktak House, village and river scenes as well as individuals including Bob Harris and wife, a Quasila Speaker. Many of these photographs have handwritten notes signed “CFN” on the back. There are also notes on some photos to clarify which tribes are featured (ie. “Haida or Kwakiutl”?)

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Contains 5 contact prints and 1 still from a moving image. The prints are from Franz Boas's 1930 Visit to Fort Rupert and Alert Bay, B.C. They are from the Series of copy Negs 2A19339-2A19424. The smaller print appears to be a frame from the moving pictures Boas took in Fort Rupert on this trip.

Scope and Contents Contains 61 black and white portraits of Native Americans from Vancouver / British Columbia, Canada including the following tribes: Kwakiutl Haida, Quatsino, Koskimo. There are several portraits where the individuals are identified including Koskimo Chief Walas and Speaker Sexoyalis. There is a portrait of a Thompson Indian woman in British Columbia, and a portrait of a Haida Indian photographed in the Haida village of Masset at Port Essington, highlighting chest tattoos. The photos in this...

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Contains 1 black and white photograph of Notemgila Ghost Puppets. A note on the photo indicates that it was taken by and/or published in House and Garden, June 1943.

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Contains 9 cardstock postcards with photograph on one side, mailing lines and postage mark on the other. 5 of the postcards feature images of Gawestums. 1 features a Tsatsichnukwomi Structure, 1 a Bella Coola Stone Object, 1 a Quatsino woman, a Kwakiutl Family in Alert Bay, and the Tenaktak House of Harbledown Island. Many postcards are stamped by: J.E. Evans. Manufacturer and Dealer in Pictorial Post Card.

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Contains 5 black and white photos of river and village scenes around Fort Rupert. One image has a note on the back “Hunt?” that might indicate he took these photos.

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Contains 6 black and white prints marked 'ASN' are from a 1927 trip to Ft. Rupert made by Associated Screen News to produce films with opera singer Mme. Juliette Gauther called "Totem Land" and "Saving the Sagas," coordinated by Marius Barbeau. Subjects include Codwallader Girls, Mme. Gauther, George Hunt and his wife, and a Native Woman as well as death masks and burial totems.

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Contains 2 black and white photographs. One is of a man, Dzonokwa Dish, and children. The other is a blanket counting ceremony in Fort Rupert before potlatch taken by H.I. Smith.

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Contains 4 black and white photos from the Field Museum of Chicago featuring Kwakiutl costumes like the whale and wasp mask and the Hamatsa costume.

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Contains 2 black and white mounted photos from a Kwakiutl Ceremony.