Date: 1960 to 1970
Description: Colour slides collected and donated by Adelaide de Menil. Slide jacket's contain descriptions, which have been copied to the titles. Slides not taken by de Menil read: Schallerer's Photo Shop, 212 Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Description: Dagger with bear pommel inlaid with abalone.
Date: 1972
Description: Murphy Stalney and Walter Harris displaying an abalone shell. Abalone is an important material in Northwest Coast art. It is used as a decorative inlay, as jewellery, and it is sewn onto robes and ceremonial regalia. It is often used to denote power, rank, and prestige.
Description: Abalone ear ornaments with copper findings "people of Totem"
Description: Soul catcher, of intricate form line design and carving. Typical bear or land otter design, with abalone inlaid intricately in teeth, eyes, nostrils and other areas.
Date: 1960 to 1970
Description: Colour slides collected and donated by Adelaide de Menil. Slide jacket's contain descriptions, which have been copied to the titles. Slides not taken by de Menil read: Schallerer's Photo Shop, 212 Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing Mask
Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing decorating a mask at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton.
Date: 1972
Description: Lottie Muldow mixing yal, which means ""soapberries turned around and around"". This creamy mixture is also known to many by the name Indian ice-cream. These scenes of food processing were initiated in order to record some of the traditional practices of the Gitxsan people and to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers. The objective was to create colour images of practices that were partially captured in earlier black and white photographs and in early texts…
Date: 1972
Description: Lottie Muldow mixing yal, which means ""soapberries turned around and around"". This creamy mixture is also known to many by the name Indian ice-cream. These scenes of food processing were initiated in order to record some of the traditional practices of the Gitxsan people and to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers. The objective was to create colour images of practices that were partially captured in earlier black and white photographs and in early texts…
Date: 1972
Description: Abel Campbell standing at the end of the drying rack. The prepared berries have been spread out over a bed of salmonberry leaves. Skunk cabbage is normally used for this purpose These scenes of food processing were initiated in order to record some of the traditional food practices among the Gitxsan and to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers. The Book Builders of 'Ksan produced a volume on these collecting and processing practices titled Gathering what…
Date: 1972
Description: Victor Mowat
Date: 1972
Description: Victor Mowat with adz.
Date: 1972
Description: Victor Mowat with adz
Date: 1972
Description: Victor Mowat with adz
