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Government Order Mandating forced haircuts of Indigenous people (1902)
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…
Mary Greyeyes being blessed by native Chief (1942)
Black and White Photograph, showing Mary Greyeyes bowing for a blessing ceremony by an Indigenous Chief who is stood above her.
She became the first woman from Aboriginal origins to join the Canadian Forces, and was often photographed as a…
She became the first woman from Aboriginal origins to join the Canadian Forces, and was often photographed as a…
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…
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…
As the mask was created in 1919 it is not an antique piece of artwork. Pieces like…