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A First Nations Family with Sluice boxes and rockers; Looking for gold on the Fraser River

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This image shows a group of 7 First Nation people searching for gold in the Fraser River. Both men and women are active in the search for gold on the river beds. The Author is described as the British Columbia Provincial secretary, suggesting that…

Tags: 19th century, British Columbia, Colonalism, Fraser River, Gold, Gold Rush, Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Miners, Mining, Photograph, Tool, Trade

Basket

The object is a basket from the Nkala’pamux people around the Fraser river area. The basket is made from plant fiber, wood, string and possibly pigment (paint). The dimension of the basket is: 50cm in length, 34cm in width, 24cm in height. The basket…

Tags: 20th century, Basket, Basket weaving, Culture, Economics, Fraser River, Gifts, Hunting and Gathering, Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Material Culture, Material Object, Museum Age, Museum Scramble, Nkala’pamux, Potlatch

Dance of Indians at Mission in San Jose, New California

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Black and white drawing of six Indians with elaborately painted and tattooed bodies, wearing costumes and headdresses, dance in clearing near river. Possibly the earliest known view of Mission Indians in indigenous costumes at Mission San Jose,…

Despatch to London: Douglas to Stanley

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This report describes a number of different aspects all related to the Fraser River. Douglas first acknowledges that a large amount of people are coming to the area from San Francisco, in order to mine for gold. Towards the end of the document,…

Tags: 19th century, British Columbia, Europeans, Fraser River, Gold Mining, Gold Rush, Immigration, Indigenous, Migration, Miners, Mining, Photograph, San Francisco, Settler

Edition of San Francisco Call: Number 68, 7th August 1890

Small advertisement within an Edition of the San Francisco Call advertising the monthly meeting of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. Advertisement is made up of around 20 words. The San Francisco Call was a very short-lived newspaper,…

Tags: 19th century, Abstinence, Abstinence Unions of America, Advert, Advertisement, Alcohol, California, Catholicism, Christianity, Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Morality, Newspaper, Religion, San Francisco, San Francisco Call

Figure of Ku-ka’ili- moku

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The image shows a wooden figure likely to represent Ku-ka’ili- moku, the God of war. Having such a variety of these figures and having such grand figures would show the significance behind this to the people of Hawaii. This is extremely significant…

Tags: 19th century, Art, Culture, Figure, Hawai'i, Hawaii, Indigenous, Ku-ka’ili- moku, Material Culture, Material Object, Missionaries, Museum Age, Museum Scramble, Religion, Sculpture

Fort Rupert

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his photograph shows a group of 3 settler men sitting with 2 Native American Women and 1 indigenous Child. One man can be seen being playful with another of the men and one of the women. In the background is a shored boat, with a small log cabin…

Tags: 19th century, British Columbia, Colonial Amalgamation, Colonial Settlement, Colonisation, Fort Rupert, Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Interaction, Settlement, Settlers

Government Order Mandating forced haircuts of Indigenous people (1902)

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Black and White official copy of Letter send by William Atkinson Jones, Commissioner of Indian Affairs to superintendents of all federal reservations, dated January 1902. Commonly referred to as the ‘Haircut order’. Within the letter Jones refers…

Tags: 20th century, Assimilation, British Columbia, Ceremony, Discrimination, European, Government Mandate, Haircut order, Haircuts, Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Letter, Marginalization, William Atkinson Jones

Haida Headdress frontlet

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This object is part of a traditional headdress worn by indigenous peoples, Haida, in the mid-nineteenth century. It was recovered by the Royal BC Museum to show traditional headwear from this period. It appear to depict a Shaman. This object fits…

Tags: 19th century, British Columbia, Christianity, Culture, Frontlet, Haida, Headdress, Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Material Culture, Material Object, Missionary, Museum Age, Museum Scramble, Spirituality

Hawaiian maiden gelatin silver print, Honolulu

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The source at hand shows a young Hawaiian woman, with her breasts exposed in native Hawaiian Hula attire. The lack of westernisation in the late 19th century implies she is from a poorer class and could not afford to wear westernised clothing. This…

Tags: 19th century, Art, Education, Fashion, Hawai'i, Hawaii, Honolulu, Hula, Hula dance, Indigenous, Indigenous customs, Indigenous Peoples, native clothing, Photograph, Textiles, Traditional Dance, Westernisation, Women

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