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Box 1

 Container

Contains 16 Results:

Photographs of/by George Hunt, Hastings, 1894-1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Contents

Contains 16 black and white photographs of individual Native Americans, daily life and village scenes. Also includes one color enhanced photo of "The Am-At-Sa". Many of the photographs have handwritten notes on the back with attributions or questions.

Dates: 1894-1943

Photographs by George Hunt (?)

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Contents

Contains 8 black and white photographs of daily life in Fort Rupert including the town itself, the Mamalelekala Tribe House, cooking, and blanket exchanges. These photographs have handwriting and notes that may be George Hunt’s indicating that he labelled them and may have taken them.

Dates: 1868-1943; Majority of material found within 1894-1902

Photographs from Boas/Hastings, Fort Rupert, 1894

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Contents

Contains 17 black and white photographs of daily life, ceremonies, Kwakiutl Hamatsa Dancers, and “Kotexa” or Paying Marriage Debt.

Dates: 1894

Photocopies of Negatives from Boas Kwakiutl collection, Fort Rupert, 1930

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies of 90 negatives, photocopied 10 or 6 to a page across 7 pieces of copy paper. Images depict totems, village scenes, portraits of Native Americans.

Dates: 1930

Photographs of Boas's Potlatch, Fort Rupert, 1894-11-28

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Contents

Contains 3 black and white photographs from Boas’s Potlach in Fort Rupert on November 28, 1894. One cover sheet notes that the photographs were taken by Oregon C. Hastings while a later annotation notes that they were taken by George Hunt.

Dates: 1894-11-28

Photographs of One Woman in Domestic Scenes. Fort Rupert, B.C. Oregon C. Hastings, 1894

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Contents

Contains 21 black and white photographs of the same woman performing various tasks including: weaving, spinning, basket making, shredding cedar bark, using a goat horn spoon. There are discrepancies between the descriptions of the photos written on the back of each photo and the photographs described by the folder’s coversheet.

Dates: 1894

Photographs Taken by Charles F. Newcombe in Victoria, B.C.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Contents

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”?)

Dates: 1868-1943; Majority of material found within 1894-1902

Contact Prints from Neg. Series 2A 19339-2A19424 of Fort Rupert and Alert Bay, 1930

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1930

Portraits of Northwest Coast Indians

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: PPC .B63
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...
Dates: 1868-1943; Majority of material found within 1894-1902

Photograph of Notemgila Ghost Puppets, Kwakiutl, Kingcome Inlet, B.C., 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: PPC .B63
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1943