Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "No. 54. Old tombs & totems. / to Haida graves Massett".Two tombs stand in foreground, each consisting of a horizontal box held by two hollow posts sunk in the ground.
Photograph depicts an unidentified individual leaning against a large overturned dugout canoe; barrel, bucket, and wood planks in foreground. Houses and other buildings can be seen on shore above beach, and two unidentified individuals stand in di...
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of a line of houses. Sandy beach in foreground, forest on hill in background.Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Kai sun W. Coast Q.C.I."
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of remains of wood structures built along sandy shore. View from above, forest on hill in background.Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "[? illegible] Deserted village West Coast QCIs."
Photograph depicts many crest poles in front of wooden homes. An unidentified family can be seen sitting by house in centre. Wood pile and path in foreground.Handwritten annotation on image reads: "Masset Queen Charlotte's Islands, Crest...
Photograph depicts large church in fenced area, mission house visible behind trees in background.Printed on image: "The Church. Old Massett. Q.C.I. / J.D. Allen. Photo. C."
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of a line of houses. Blanketed canoes sit on beach in right foreground; forest in background.Handwritten annotations on verso read: “skidegate village Queen Charlotte Islands as it appeared forty years ago...
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of wooden houses on right. Hills on shoreline visible in background.Handwritten annotations on verso read: "West Coast QCIs."; "[Old?] Kassan Alaska."
Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "W.E. Collison Masset. Interior of Chief [Weah's?] house".Caption under printed version of photo in W.H. Collison's book 'In the Wake of the War Canoe': "The h...
Three unidentified men stand by poles in foreground, wood houses and crest poles visible in background.Printed below image: "Totem Poles, Massett, Q.C. Island, B.C. "; "T.N. Hibbon & Co., Victoria, B.C. [crossed through with ink...
Large bear carving sits on top of wide pole, erected in memory of a chief of the Bear crest. Lines of houses stand in background.Printed below image: "Totem Pole. Old Massett. Q.C.I / J.D. Allen photo Co."; handwritten below: "Mortu...
Photographs depict large building in fenced area, trees in yard and in background.Handwritten annotations on verso read: "Mission House at Massett QCIs"; "Mission House at Massett - Mother & Dad lived there."
Rev. W.E. Collison sits to left of totem pole, smoking a pipe (oldest son of Marion and Archdeacon W.H. Collison). Log fence can be seen in front of forest in right background.Handwritten annotations on verso read: “W.E. Collison at Massett, QCIs....
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of a line of houses. Blanketed canoes sit on beach in right foreground; forest in background.Handwritten annotations on verso read: “Haida Encampment [crossed through with line]"; "Skidegate Quee...
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of forest trees, fallen logs on beach in foreground.Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Indian Totems along beach on Q.C. Islands"
Image depicts several individuals seated on a ferry as it possibly departs from a dock somewhere in Prince Rupert, B.C. It is most likely headed for Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Series consists of images pertaining the Collison family, North Coastal First Nations communities, means of transportation along North Coastal British Columbia, and various church structures and religious events.
Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Tombs. ? Massett".Caption under printed version of photo in W.H. Collison's book 'In the Wake of the War Canoe': "At Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. The si...
The pair sits on ground beside large totem pole, Bertha on left (wife of W.E. Collison). Log fence can be seen in front of forest in right background.Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Mother & Josie Edenshaw at Massett".
Totem poles (crest poles?) stand in front of remains of wood structures, forest visible in background.Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "A deserted Village, Q.C. Islands [...]" (various notes crossed through on verso).