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 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 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 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 shaking hands with an unidentified employee of Frank Beban Logging while standing beside a large piece of heavy machinery.
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 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 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 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 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 and Sharon Hitchcock in front of the Haida Council Office in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii).
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 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 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.
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."
Image depicts a house with some Firts Nations' art painted on the front, somewhere on Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts a house on the shore somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a house on the shore somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts the waters of the Hecate Strait.
Image depicts the waters of the Hecate Strait, possibly on approach to Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Conical woven hat with a flat top and circular brim. Shells sewn to hat.
Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “W.E. Collison.” Stamped annotation on verso reads: “Department of Mines and Resources, Photographic Section. Oct. 6, 1939”. Numeric annotation on verso: “50-2”
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.
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."
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.
Japanese fishing float probably found or received by Minister Iona Campagnolo in Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a trail through the forest somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a forest somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a forest somewhere on Haida Gwaii.
Carved wooden flute. Stamped annotation on verso reads: “Department of Mines and Resources, Photographic Section. Oct. 6, 1939”. Numeric annotation on verso: “33-6”
Rocky shoreline featuring a small dwelling, totem pole, net rack, canoes pulled up to shore, barrels and boxes and a tent.
Handwritten annotation in pencil on verso reads: “Kunhalas [sic] at entrance to C--- Harbour”.
Image depicts a fence and power lines near the shore on Haida Gwaii. It is possibly a small community such as Masset.
Large ladles used during potlaches to serve guests food from the feast dish; Carved wooden harpoon heads used for hunting large sea mammals and one unidentified item with a triangular shape and flat top. Handwritten annotation in pen on verso reads: “W.E. Collison.” Stamped annotation on verso reads: “Department of Mines and Resources, Photographic Section. Oct. 6, 1939”. Numeric annotation on verso: “50-1”
Image depicts a building surrounded by a tall, circular enclosure somewhere on Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Photograph depicts the El Dorado fishing boat off the coast of British Columbia, possibly near Haida Gwaii.
Image depicts a ferry docked at Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Double-ended, double-edged metal dagger with leather (?) strips covering the grip. Both blades are triangular-shaped with a double ridge running across the middle in line with the handle in between. One blade is longer than the other. Intricately beaded pouch appears to be made of felt and was constructed to sheath both heads of the dagger. Stamped annotation on verso reads: “Department of Mines and Resources, Photographic Section. Oct. 6, 1939”. Numeric annotation on verso: “50-5”
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."
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."
Image depicts numerous trees in the coastal forest of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts numerous trees in the coastal forest of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts numerous trees in the coastal forest of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts numerous trees in the coastal forest of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts the coastal forests on the shores of Haida Gwaii, B.C.
Image depicts the coastal forests on the shores of Haida Gwaii, B.C. An unknown individual is crouching on the beach in the image.
Image depicts the coastline of Haida Gwaii, B.C.