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Interior Salish Basket
The source is an interior Salish basket made from Athapaskan people collected by F. C. Swannell in Pemberton Meadows from 1917. The basket has an imbricated design of dyed and undyed cherry bark in the form of different shades of brown that form a…
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…
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…
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…
Haida totem pole
The object is a tall Haida totem pole from the Haida people who are located in northern British Columbia. The totem pole is tall and has several markings – three watchmen, Ts'aamus (supernatural snag with frog in mouth), a grizzly bear with two…
Kwakwaka'waks (Ligwilda'xw) Whale Headdress
The Kwakwaka'wak Whale Headdress is an argillite carving created by the Kwakwaka'wak, a Pacific Northwest Coast Indigenous people north of the city of Vancouver, collected by Charles F. Newcombe’s from his early 20th-century exploration in British…
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…
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.…
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…
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…