Description: Shaman amulets in images of sea monster, wolf with extended tongue, and charm in form of raven and bear.
Date: 1895
Description: Detail of a famous photograph by Winter & Pond. The image shows the Wood Worm post carved by Kad-jis-too-ach, a portion of the Rainwall Screen and clan members displaying their clan items. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Shaman healing ritual being performed
Description: Shamanistic charm carved from antler. Depicted is a killer whale and separate humanoids.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Carved whale baleen charm, in image of Killer whale with two dorsal fins.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Shaman charm, carved from bone depicting a bear.
Name(s): Halpin, Marjorie, M., 1937-
Description: Shaman bird amulet.
Description: Shaman wands carved from bone, one with handle carved with a bird image.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Museum display of various charms, mainly carved from bone and one from argilite. All inlaid with abalone.
Description: Shaman's crown, made from carved cedar 'claws' and cedar bark.
Description: Shaman crown of bear claws, carved with various faces. Abalone is inlaid in the eyes and mouths of the faces and along the claw itself. Collected by Marious Barbeau.
Description: Shaman crown of bear claws, carved with various faces. Abalone is inlaid in the eyes and mouths of the faces and along the claw itself.
Date: 1972
Description: Sadie Mowatt performs healing ceremony on Barlow Green. Ernest Hyzims with drum in the background. Among the Tsimshian, a shaman could be a man or a woman endowed with special powers. Shamans specialized in healing the sick, attracting fish or game, influencing the outcome of warefare, or predicting th eweather.
Date: 1918
Name(s): Shotridge, Louis
Description: Keyqu Performing the Lot-m Dance ceremony of the Secret Society.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Shaman doll donning bone charm necklace, leather tunic, shaman claw crown.
