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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,…

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…

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…