Browse Items · The American Pacific Rim: Colonisation, Conflict and Connections, 1800-Present

Northern Paiute burden basket, Ca 1910.

Below is a Northern Paiute burden basket made by an indigenous women belonging to the Northern Paiute tribe. The tribe occupied east– central California, western Nevada and eastern Oregon. This tribe is known traditionally for their hunting and…

Tags: 20th century, Basket, California, Hunting and Gathering, Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Northern Paiute, Resources, Tribe, Women

Illustrated map of Vancouver area with indigenous place names

A map of the Vancouver and North Shore area, illustrated with animals and trees and a totem pole. The map, created by Englishwoman Jessiman who moved to Canada in 1928, appears to be hand-drawn with ink and pencil on paper and measures 56cm x 77cm.…

Tags: 20th century, British Columbia, Colonial Relations, Illustration, Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Map, Museum Scramble, Origin, Place Name, Translation

Weapon

A weapon made of a dark brown wood, with shark teeth affixed at one end, believed to be from ninetieth century. This object is useful for thinking about the ways in which indigenous Hawaiian groups used the materials that they had around them for…

Tags: 19th century, Fishing, Hawai'i, Hawaii, Indigenous, Material Culture, Material Object, Shark Teeth, Tool, Weapon, Whaling

Molokai Map

A map produced for a Hawaiian government survey of the island of Molokai. The place names are described in Hawaiian, but the text at the bottom is in English. During 1897, there was an effort to annex Hawaii, which succeeded the following year, and…

Tags: 19th century, Europeans, Hawai'i, Hawaii, Indigenous, Map, Molokai, Monarchy, Place Names, Queen Luluokalani, Republic

Haida Headdress frontlet

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

Fort Rupert

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

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

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

Despatch to London: Douglas to Stanley

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

Kwakwaka’wakw Mask 1919

The source is a mask that was made in 1919 by Willie Seaweed. The mask depicts a face with hair; it is mainly black and grey with pops of read, orange and yellow.

As the mask was created in 1919 it is not an antique piece of artwork. Pieces like…

Tags: 20th century, British Columbia, Ceremony, European, Europeans, Indigenous, Indigenous Peoples, Kwakwaka'wakw, Mask, Material Culture, Material Object, ritualism, Spirituality, Tourism, Traditional Dress

Honolulu display of traditional native and Western building styles

The image clearly shows the impact the missionaries had on Hawaii. From this piece of artwork you can see the traditional Hawaiian building styles followed by western style structures in the background. This shows the occupation of the Hawaiian…

Tags: 19th century, Architecture, Art, Cultural Assimilation, Drawing, European, European Architecture, French, Hawai'i, Hawaii, Honolulu, Illustration, Indigenous, Land, Painting, Western

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