Box 3

Scope and Contents Contains 178 black and white field photographs and 3 cardstock postcards with photograph on one side and postage lines on the other. Include photos of totems belonging to the Kwakiutl and Haida people in Price Whales Island Alaska, Queen Charlotte Islands, Kitwanga, B.C., Klukwan, Alaska, and Alert Bay, B.C. There are also village scenes including the Bella Coola and Haida people in Alert Bay and Fort Rupert, taken by George Hunt and Richard Maynard, and photographs of Thompson Indians,...

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Contains 8 black and white portraits of Nootka Indians. Several have notes in pencil on the back read: "Nootka. North Pacific Coast." No date.

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Contains 5 black and white Indian Grave postcards. 1 has the note: "Klukwan, Alaska. (Tlingit)" on the back in pencil, while many of the rest appear to be of the graveyard in Hazleton. Also contains 1 newspaper illustration, captioned “Burial place and Idols of the Frazer River Indians.” 1873.

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Contains 11 black and white photographs of the Kwakiutl objects from the NW Coast Collection that were taken by R. Weber and contain lengthy explanations by George Hunt, with additional comments from Boas on the backs. 1930s.

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Contains 121 contact prints. The main subject is of the Kwakiutl at Ft. Rupert. There is a set of 14 contact prints captioned, “Geo. Hunt and wife and 2 nephews (Cadwallader) Julia Averkieva, Ft. Rupert, 1930.” 1930-1931. One photograph has a note that reads: “This is Babine Indian salmon fishing ?? A small river in British Columbia. Note the antique fishing apparatus he is using." Also stamped by "The Canadian Photo News Service.”