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

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

Native Woman with Children

This source is a black and white photograph that portrays an indigenous woman with two children with several buckets. It is difficult to glean much from this photograph with certainty. One of the children appears to have some form of facial…

Tags: 19th century, British Columbia, Ethnology, Indigenous Peoples, Museum Age, Museum Scramble

Memorial Totem Pole

This is a memorial Totem pole created in the memory of a member of the Gitanyow house of the Kitwancool Tribe, now stored in a museum, yet the pole was only recently obtained by the museum at the end of the 20th century. This was created at a time of…

Tags: 19th century, British Columbia, Colonialism, Gitanyow, Indigenous Peoples, Kitwancool, Material Culture, Material Object, Memorial, Museum, Museum Age, Museum Scramble, Religion, ritualism, Spirituality, Totem Pole

Kwakwaka’wakw Transformation Mask (1900-1920)

Artifact is a Transformational ceremonial mask originating from the Kwakwaka’wakw tribe, a Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous people. The mask is carved from wood in an oval human shape with hinges revealing a similar human face with whale motifs…

Tags: 20th century, British Columbia, Ceremonial Mask, Ceremony, Gwawa’enuxw, Iconography, Indigenous Peoples, Kwakwaka’wakw, Mask, Material Culture, Material Object, Museum Age, Museum Scramble, oral history, ritualism, Spirituality, Transformation Mask, Wood Carving

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

Totem Pole - 16.1/438 A

It is totem pole from the Nuxalk Nation of indigenous people, in British Columbia. It is made of carved red cedar wood and an unspecified paint. Its dimensions are 128cm in length, 188cm in width and 356cm in height. The totem itself has two faces…

Tags: 20th century, British Columbia, Culture, Indigenous Peoples, Material Culture, Material Object, Museum Age, Museum Scramble, Nuxalk Nation, ritualism, Totem Pole, Traditions, Wood Carving

Coast Salish Robe

A colourful stylish robe, with traditional twined and twill woven materials. The robe features simplistic patterns and is made from mountain- goat wool and hair from ‘wool dogs’ which were bred specifically for the textile industry purpose. Its from…

Tags: 19th century, British Columbia, Fashion, Homemaking, Housewife, Material Culture, Material Object, Museum Age, Museum Scramble, Textiles, Traditional Dress, Women

Photograph of Reverend Green with a Tsimshian interpreter

This source is a photograph of Reverend A.E. Green and his Tsimshian interpreter. This shows both persons dressed traditionally; Green in the bowler hat and smart jacket and the interpreter in old clothing, which highlights the clash between the two…

Tags: 19th century, Assimilation, British Columbia, Christianity, Cultural Assimilation, Culture, Indigenous Peoples, Interpreter, languages, Missionaries, Museum Age, Photograph, Translation, Translator, Tsimshia

Figure of Ku-ka’ili- moku

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

Kwakwaka’wakw Chief’s mask

This item is a chief’s mask, from the Kwakwaka’wakw tribe in British Columbia. The design of the mask involves human hair and exaggerated facial features supposed to represent a woman in the woods. This item was created in traditional style, to be…

Tags: 19th century, British Columbia, Chief’s mask, Colonialism, Indigenous Peoples, Kwakwaka’wakw, Mask, Material Culture, Material Object, Museum Age, Museum Scramble, ritualism

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