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: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of a Bill Reid pole at the Haida Village at the Museum of Anthropology. At the centre of the complex are two Haida houses and six poles created between 1960 and 1962 by the late Haida artist Bill Reid and 'Namgis artist Doug Cranmer. The two cedar-plank houses are of great historical significance, and were likely the first traditional-style Haida dwellings to be built in the 20th century. 66-8-
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Armour fabricated from rods and string and painted over. Painting consists of a formline bear design, within a black border. The functionality of this set may be more for dance than actual protection.
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Xwamdasbe' house model with house front painting made for the Chicago World Fair (1893), displayed here at the AMNH, New York.
Date: 1972
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Model of the frontal painting and Moon plaque from Captain Gold's House (from Old Gold Harbour) at Second Beach.
Date: 2005
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: The contrast of a new pole standing next to a historic pole that, at one time, featured a carving on top of the short post that has mostly decayed.
Date: 1980 to 1985
Description: Culturally modified tree. The bark from this tree has been harvested at some time in the past. From photos 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.
Date: 1879
Name(s): Hastings, O. C.
Description: Inhabitants of the Monster House with Israel Powell (on left), the first Indian superintendent of British Columbia.
Date: 1882 to 1885
Name(s): Jacobsen, Johan Adrian, 1853-1947
Description: In the foreground on the left is a memorial pole that was raised in honour of Chief Wiah's first wife. On the right is a beaver memorial pole with fifteen cylinders on the shaft of the pole. This pole is very similar to the interior pole of the Monster House (in the background, left).
Date: 1882
Name(s): Buxton, B.
Description: View of Chief Wiah's Monster House from its boardwalk that stretched from the house to the beach. The memorial pole on the left is virtually identical to to the interior pole of the house.
Date: 1890
Name(s): Reford, R.
Description: The man standing by the memorial pole is Chief Anethlas, and the boy by the frontal pole of Monster House is young Willy Matthews (later Chief Wiah). The memorial pole of a standing beaver with a stick in its mouth is virtually identical to the interior pole of Monster House. There is a sculpin (spiny fish) incised on the beavers stomach and a small copper was attached to the pole between the ears of the beaver.
Date: 1898
Name(s): Dorsey, George A. (George Amos), 1868-1931
Description: Memorial pole with the beaver holding a stick, and the right corner post. The fully carved corner posts were a feature unique to this house. Directly behind the corner post is a glimpse into the interior. Note the railing around the house pit.
Date: 1897
Name(s): Allen, E. P.
Description: The fully carved corner posts were a feature unique to this house. This left post features a large figure of a beaver wearing four cylinders at the top. It held in its mouth a frog and had a small figure between its legs. Then a bear-like figure with extended tongue holding a cub. At the base is a sea monster holding a seal in its mouth
Date: 1898
Name(s): Dorsey, George A. (George Amos), 1868-1931
Description: The interior of the Monster House showing the house pit, and Chief Wiah's sleeping compartment.
