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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Bear Interior Post

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Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Bear detail of post from Killer Whale Long Dorsal Fin Hous, Kagwantan clan. Collected by Louis Shotridge in 1930 for the University of Pennsylvania Museum.

Bear Knife

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Description: Ivory handled war knife with bear design. Pommel is inlaid with abalone.

Bear Manda

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Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: An overgrown Carved Figure resting on the forest floor in the village of Chaatl. The figure has attributes of the Bear. The figure is not a totem pole, but a Manda, a figure that supports the coffin of a deceased chief.

Bear Manda

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Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: An overgrown Carved Figure resting on the forest floor in the village of Chaatl. The figure has attributes of the Bear. The figure is not a totem pole, but a Manda, a figure that supports the coffin of a deceased chief.

Bear Manda

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Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: An overgrown Carved Figure resting on the forest floor in the village of Chaatl. The figure has attributes of the Bear. The figure is not a totem pole, but a Manda, a figure that supports the coffin of a deceased chief.

Bear Manda

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Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: An overgrown Carved Figure resting on the forest floor in the village of Chaatl. The figure has attributes of the Bear. The figure is not a totem pole, but a Manda, a figure that supports the coffin of a deceased chief.

Bear Manda

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Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: An overgrown Carved Figure resting on the forest floor in the village of Chaatl. The figure has attributes of the Bear. The figure is not a totem pole, but a Manda, a figure that supports the coffin of a deceased chief.

Bear Memorial

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Date: 1897
Name(s): Dorsey, George A. (George Amos), 1868-1931
Description: A memorial post consisting of a plain stout post about 3 metres high, surmounted by the large horizontal figure of a bear similar to, but much larger and more elaborately carved (including faces in the nostrils) than the bear in front of Property House. Like the former, this may have been a mortuary figure with a receptacle in the side to receive a box of ashes or a child's coffin.

Bear Memorial Pole

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Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.

Bear Memorial Pole at New Kasaan

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.

Bear Memorial Pole at New Kasaan

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.

Bear Memorial Pole at New Kasaan

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.

Bear Memorial Pole at New Kasaan

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.

Bear Memorial Pole at New Kasaan

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.

Bear Memorial Pole at New Kasaan

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.