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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Gitsegukla Village

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Date: 1923
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: View of Gitsegukla from behind the row of houses.

Gitsegukla Village in Winter

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Date: 1935 to 1940
Description: View of Gitsegukla from across Skeena River. Following the flood of 1936, the buildings were moved to the upper village, and only a few totem poles remain on the lower village site.

Gitsegukla Village Painting

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Date: 1912
Name(s): Carr, Emily, 1871-1945
Description: The lower village of Gitsegukla depicted before the devastating flood of 1936. This is a great representation of the colours used on the poles that are not usually captured due to the black and white photography of the era.

Gitsegukla Village Painting

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Date: 1912
Name(s): Carr, Emily, 1871-1945
Description: The lower village of Gitsegukla, depicted before the devastating flood of 1936. This is a great representation of the colours used on the poles that are not usually captured due to the black and white photography of the era.

Gitselasu People

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Date: 1910 to 1915
Description: Kitselas Band members revisiting their ancestral site and the fallen Gnawing Beaver pole.

Gitselasu People

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Date: 1912
Description: Kitselas Band members assemble for a photo at the remains of the fortress house of Chief Gaum with Whole Being support post. House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).

Gitselasu People

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Date: 1910 to 1915
Description: Kitselas Band members and the base of the Fireweed Pole of Sim'oogit Nieshawax. House of Nieshawax is house two on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).

Gitwangak Potlatch

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Date: 1918
Description: Potlatch held in winter to raise a pole in the traditional way.

Gitwangak Village

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Date: 1910
Name(s): Emmons, George Thornton, 1852-1945
Description: Gitwangak grave houses and poles at the back of the village.

Gitwangak Village

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Date: 1910
Name(s): Emmons, George Thornton, 1852-1945
Description: The poles at Gitwangak as they stood on the edge of the riverbank before the flood.

Gitwangak Village

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Date: 1925
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Row of totem poles along the riverbank at Gitwangak Village. The poles in the foreground are the Dog-Salmon pole on the left, and the On-Top-Sits-the-Squirrel pole on the right.

Gitwangak Village

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Date: 1926
Name(s): Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1939
Description: The totem poles at Gitwangak Village as they stood along the riverbank prior to the flood.

Gitxsan Chief

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Date: 1972
Description: David Gunanoot

Gitxsan Chief

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Date: 1972
Description: David Gunanoot

Gitxsan Chief

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Date: 1972
Description: Gitxsan hereditary chief, David Gunanoot.