Handwritten annotation on verso reads: “Chief Skidegate (Dempsey Collinson), Feast 1978, Q.C.I.”
Japanese fishing float probably found or received by Minister Iona Campagnolo in Haida Gwaii.
Photograph depicts the El Dorado fishing boat off the coast of British Columbia, possibly near Haida Gwaii.
Photograph depicts the British Columbia coastal shoreline, possibly near Haida Gwaii.
Photograph depicts a totem pole in a British Columbia rainforest, possibly on Haida Gwaii.
Photograph depicts a totem pole in a British Columbia rainforest, possibly on Haida Gwaii.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and Sharon Hitchcock in front of the Haida Council Office in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii).
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo presenting a New Horizons program cheque to Queen Charlotte Islands senior citizens in Masset. The grant was made for the preparation of a written history of the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo looking at a fallen Haida totem pole with Peter Jones in Ninstints on Anthony Island. Peter Jones is facing away from the camera.
Photograph depicts three Haida totem poles on Ninstints, Anthony Island, with drift wood in the foreground.
Photograph depicts three Haida totem poles, partially obscured by grass and young trees.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo looking at a fallen Haida totem pole with Peter Jones in Ninstints, Anthony Island, Haida Gwaii. The totem pole is in the foreground. Peter Jones may have accompanied Campagnolo on her Skeena riding tour as a photographer.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with an unidentified employee of Frank Beban Logging standing beside a large piece of heavy machinery.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with an unidentified employee of Frank Beban Logging while standing beside a large piece of heavy machinery.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo shaking hands with an unidentified employee of Frank Beban Logging while standing beside a large piece of heavy machinery.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with a logging truck driver of Frank Beban Logging at Athili Gwaii (Lyell Island) during a 1978 Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with a group of logging truck drivers at the Frank Beban Logging camp in Athili Gwaii (Lyell Island) during a 1978 Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with two unidentified logging truck drivers at the Frank Beban Logging camp in Athili Gwaii (Lyell Island) during a 1978 Skeena riding tour.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and five unidentified others eating at a restaurant during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour in Haida Gwaii, BC.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and six unidentified others eating at a restaurant during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour in Haida Gwaii, BC.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo marking an area on a map of British Columbia to a class of elementary school children in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. The children are in the foreground with their backs to the camera.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo pointing at a map of British Columbia and talking to a class of elementary school children in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. The children are in the foreground with their backs to the camera.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing beside a map of British Columbia and talking to a class of elementary school children in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. The children are in the foreground with their backs to the camera.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and an unidentified teacher talking to a class of elementary school children in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. The children are in the foreground with their backs to the camera.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo and an unidentified teacher talking to a class of elementary school children in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. The children are in the foreground and the majority are not facing the camera.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking to a class of elementary school children in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. The majority of the children are standing and facing away from the camera.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking to a class of elementary school children in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. Several of the children are raising their hands.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking to a class of elementary school children about the Canada Fitness Award program in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. Several unidentified adults are in the far right corner.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking to a class of elementary school children about the Canada Fitness Award program in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. Several unidentified adults are in the far right corner.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking to a class of elementary school children about the Canada Fitness Award program in Haida Gwaii during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC. An unidentified adult (possibly a teacher) is in the far right corner.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing outside the school and signing an autograph for an unidentified female student during Campagnolo's Skeena Riding Tour of Haida Gwaii, BC.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with unidentified constituents, largely male, at a community meeting in an auditorium. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with unidentified constituents at a community meeting in an auditorium. The constituents, with their backs to the camera, are in the foreground. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with unidentified constituents at a community meeting in an auditorium. The constituents, with their backs to the camera, are in the foreground. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo talking with unidentified constituents at a community meeting in an auditorium. The unidentified constituents, with most of their backs to the camera, are in the foreground. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo signing the cast of an unidentified constituent. Several other unidentified constituents surround them. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo signing the cast of an unidentified constituent. Several other unidentified constituents surround them. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo standing and talking in a group of unidentified seated constituents. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo siting and talking with a group of unidentified seated constituents. The woman beside her looks down. Taken during Campagnolo's Skeena riding tour in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia.
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 Poles / Masset with Totems."; on verso: "Chap. XIII. No. 1 This photo to be copied as an illustration on 1st page or I Chapt. 'Section of Massett, Haida Encampment showing Totems. Queen Charlotte's Islands.' For heading of page 2 of Trophies."
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 house is about 40 feet square, forming one large room. The upper cubicles are on a level with the ground, which in front of them is excavated so that the fireplace in the centre is twelve feet below the surface. A ledge, for the use of slaves and dependents, is left half-way down."
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 side-posts are solid and sunk in the ground. The horizontal piece is hollow, and contains the corpse. These tombs are now falling through decay." (see page 216).
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.
The couple walks arm in arm along dirt path in grass, buildings visible in background.
Handwritten annotation on verso of photograph reads: "Joshua [Moody?] & Wife / ? Masset B.C."
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]"; handwritten below: "The old style giving way to the new."
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: "Mortuary Pole Bear [Crest?]"; on verso: "For Chapt. XIX. The old style and the new. Mortuary Pole & modern houses. No. 3. W.H.C. Oct. [6/ ?] 13".
Photograph depicts village buildings along shore.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "67 Section of Massett as it is".
Photograph depicts village buildings along shore.
Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "Massett in Winter dress."
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."
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."