George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive

The Bill Reid Centre's George and Joanne MacDonald Image Archive contains images of Northwest Coast First Peoples, their villages, and their visual and material belongings. Many of the images collected by the MacDonalds are not unique, and can be found in museums and archives around the world. Throughout his career, Dr. MacDonald sought to bring these important resources together under one roof with the intent of creating access for Northwest Coast First Nations, and in particular artists, whose passion for historic imagery and visual documentation of their cultural belongings he witnessed first-hand. The archive is a reflection of the MacDonalds' research interests, their careers in archaeology and anthropology, their many relationships in the field, and their deep respect and admiration of the diverse nations of the Northwest Coast.

Contributed by The Bill Reid Centre, Simon Fraser University.

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Details of Chief Skowl's Pole

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Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Details of Skowl's pole. This pole was about 50 ft high, and stood at chief Skowl's Rib House. The pole pole was restored in New Kasaan. The figures are Raven with a moon in its beak; Raven holding his beak downwards and a Bear with cubs in its mouth.

Details of Chief Skowl's Pole

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Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Details of Skowl's pole. This pole was about 50 ft high, and stood at chief Skowl's Rib House. The pole pole was restored in New Kasaan. The figures are Raven with a moon in its beak; Raven holding his beak downwards and a Bear with cubs in its mouth.

Details of Chief Skowl's Pole

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Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Details of Skowl's pole. This pole was about 50 ft high, and stood at chief Skowl's Rib House. The pole pole was restored in New Kasaan. The figures are Raven with a moon in its beak; Raven holding his beak downwards and a Bear with cubs in its mouth.

Details on House Post

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Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of house post inside Chief Shakes' X'átgu Hít (Mudshark House). The raven and whale are connected through the tounge.

Deteriorated House Post

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Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The carving on this post is badly decayed. Its height and width indicate that it was a house post rather than a totem pole.

Deteriorating House Post

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: House post depicting grizzly bear holding an ancestral figure. Other posts from this house were removed in 1956 and are now on display at MOA The posts of the house of Ha'm'cit were carved by a man from Smith Inlet called Si.wit who moved to Xu'mtaspi and married Tom Omhyid's mother. Ha'm'cit died before the house was finished. (Information provided to Prof. Wilson Duff, 1925-1976 by Mungo Martin).

Deteriorating Pole

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Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The Whole Being Pole belonged to house five on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).

Deteriorating Post

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Date: 1927
Name(s): Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1939
Description: Fallen house post.

Diesing and a Few her Creations

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Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing carving mask at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton

Diesing Mask

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Description: Raven transformation mask created by Freda Diesing. People of the Cedar exhibition.

Diesing Masks

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Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing masks at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton

Diesing Masks

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Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing masks at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton

Diesing Masks

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Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing masks at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton

Diesing with Mask

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Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing working at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton

Discarded Items from the Past

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Date: 1980 to 1985
Description: A photo taken during the survey and excavation of various village sites in the Kitselas Canyon. The collection consists of photos taken by Morris Mason, Dave Walker and Gary Coupland during archaeological surveys and digs in the early 1980s.