Haida Gwaii, BC

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          • UF Queen Charlotte Islands, BC

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            47 Archival description results for Haida Gwaii, BC

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            2009.7.1.093 · Item · [ca. 1876 - ca. 1900]
            Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

            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."

            2009.7.1.079 · Item · [ca. 1876 - ca. 1915]
            Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

            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."

            2009.7.1.074 · Item · [ca. 1876 - ca. 1900]
            Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

            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."

            Fence and Power Lines
            2012.13.1.78.47 · Item · 1982
            Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

            Image depicts a fence and power lines near the shore on Haida Gwaii. It is possibly a small community such as Masset.

            2009.7.1.086 · Item · [1898?]
            Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

            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 distance on far right.

            Handwritten annotations on verso read: “Haida canoe on beach at Masset / ? 1898”; “No. 4 Page 5. Haida Canoe ready for steaming to [widen?] out and finish.”

            An original negative of this photograph is held by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, no. 26664.

            2009.7.1.076 · Item · [between 1876 and 1915]
            Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

            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).

            2009.7.1.075 · Item · [ca. 1876 - ca. 1900]
            Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

            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."

            2009.7.1.080 · Item · October 1913
            Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

            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".

            Photographs
            2009.7.1 · Series · [ca. 1873 - ca. 1939]
            Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

            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.

            Totem Poles
            2012.13.1.78.59 · Item · 1982
            Part of J. Kent Sedgwick fonds

            Image depicts several individuals examining totem poles which are possibly undergoing a restoration process somewhere on Haida Gwaii.

            2009.7.1.092 · Item · [ca. 1876 - ca. 1900]
            Part of Archdeacon W. H. Collison fonds

            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".