Photograph depicts a woman with a microphone, possibly Ada Yovanovich or Blanche MacDonald, wearing a button blanket at an event in Skidegate.

Photograph depicts a woman with a microphone, possibly Ada Yovanovich or Blanche MacDonald, wearing a button blanket at an event in Skidegate.

Photograph depicts a woman, possibly Ada Yovanovich or Blanche MacDonald, sitting at a table in Skidegate with Dempsey Collinson and possibly Wylie Brillon or Ed Wempler.

Photograph depicts a woman, possibly Ada Yovanovich or Blanche MacDonald, sitting at a table in Skidegate with Dempsey Collinson, possibly Wylie Brillon or Ed Wempler, and an unknown man.

Photograph depicts a woman, possibly Ada Yovanovich or Blanche MacDonald, sitting at a table in Skidegate with Dempsey Collinson, possibly Wylie Brillon or Ed Wempler, and an unknown man.

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"; "Rev W.E. Collison Prince Rupert"; "Hughes"; "1".

Photograph depicts a totem pole supported by ropes at the Skidegate museum.

Photograph depicts a totem pole supported by ropes at Skidegate museum, Queen Charlotte Islands.

Photograph depicts a totem pole at Skidegate museum, Queen Charlotte Islands.

Photograph depicts a totem pole supported by ropes at Skidegate museum, Queen Charlotte Islands.

Photograph depicts a totem pole supported by ropes at Skidegate museum, Queen Charlotte Islands.

Photograph depicts a totem pole supported by ropes at the Skidegate museum.

Photograph depicts a totem pole supported by ropes at Skidegate museum, Queen Charlotte Islands.

Photograph depicts a rear view of a totem pole supported by ropes at Skidegate museum, Queen Charlotte Islands.

Photograph depicts men on stage with a woman, possibly Ada Yovanovich or Blanche MacDonald, wearing button blankets at an event in Skidegate.

Photograph depicts Jamie Sterrit wearing a button blanket and holding a piece of paper on stage with women wearing button blankets at an event in Skidegate.

Photograph depicts Jamie Sterrit wearing a button blanket and holding a piece of paper on stage with women wearing button blankets and feather headbands at an event in Skidegate.

Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo wearing a button blanket while speaking to Dempsey Collinson, holding a wooden staff and wearing a button blanket and head dress.

Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo wearing a button blanket while speaking to Dempsey Collinson, wearing a button blanket and head dress at an event in Skidegate.

Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo receiving a button blanket from Dempsey Collinson at an event in Skidegate .

Photograph depicts Iona Campagnolo on stage with Dempsey Collinson and an unknown man wearing button blankets at an event in Skidegate.

Photograph depicts a face at the base of a totem pole supported by ropes at Skidegate museum, Queen Charlotte Islands.

Photograph depicts Dempsey Collinson wearing a button blanket and head dress while holding a carved staff at an event in Skidegate.

Photograph depicts Dempsey Collinson wearing a button blanket and head dress while holding a carved staff at an event in Skidegate.

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 Queen Charlottes Islands / To illustrate Introduction / Introduction Trophies from a Song [Trail?] Page 1 Heading."

Two carved poles stand in foreground, a third smaller pole visible by wood structure in background.

The pole at left is the Chief Skedans mortuary pole, which was raised in the Haida village of Skidegate about 1870. It honours the Raven Chief of Skedans and depicts the chief's hereditary crests. The two tiny figures in the bear's ears are the chief's daughter and son-in-law who erected the pole and gave a potlach for the chief's memorial. The rectangle board at the top of the original pole covered a cavity that held the chief's remains.

The pole at left may be a whale pole.

Handwritten annotation on verso reads: "For heading of Page 12. Fin Back Whale Crest. [?] Totems, S.E. Alaska". This original annotation is believed to be incorrect.

Photograph depicts a human figure at the base of a totem pole supported by ropes at Skidegate museum, Queen Charlotte Islands.