Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Date: 1898
Name(s): Pillsbury, Arthur C. (Arthur Clarence)
Description: "Dance of the sticks at the Klukwan Potlatch" Interior of Frog house.
Date: 1972
Description: Cooking huckelberries before they are dried. These scenes of food processing were initiated in order to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers among the Gitxsan. The Book Builders of 'Ksan produced a volume on these collecting and processing practices titled Gathering what the Great Nature provided: food traditions of the Gitksan, by the people of 'Ksan.
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 resource and food gathering were initiated in order to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers among the Gitxsan. The objective was to create colour images of practices that were partially captured in earlier black and white photographs and in early texts such as those written by Marius Barbeau…
Date: 1960 to 1970
Description: Colour slides collected and donated by Adelaide de Menil. Slide jacket's contain descriptions, which have been copied to the titles. Slides not taken by de Menil read: Schallerer's Photo Shop, 212 Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Club detail.
Description: Detail of a stone club handle, carved linear grooves on face of club, bird effigy at tip. Records note handle carved in shape of phallus.
Name(s): Sawyer, Alan R. (Alan Reed), 1919-2002
Description: Stone clubs fashioned in the shape of war knives.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Grave stone for Emma, with frog looking downwards
Date: 1910 to 1915
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: Carved stone monuments sitting in front of Minesqu's Split-Eagle and Whale Pole.
Description: Shamanistic amulet carved from porous stone, in shape eye in ovoid shape. with extensions possibly being fingers.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Stone Ribs inside of a sea lion skin. Stone Ribs is known as the legendary strong man. This pole depicts him encased in the body of a sea lion, whose upthrust head and nose are at the the top of the pole. At the base is a bear figure.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Stone Ribs inside of a sea lion skin. Stone Ribs is known as the legendary strong man. This pole depicts him encased in the body of a sea lion, whose upthrust head and nose are at the the top of the pole. At the base is a bear figure.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Stone Ribs inside of a sea lion skin. Stone Ribs is known as the legendary strong man. This pole depicts him encased in the body of a sea lion, whose upthrust head and nose are at the the top of the pole. At the base is a bear figure.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Stone Ribs inside of a sea lion skin. Stone Ribs is known as the legendary strong man. This pole depicts him encased in the body of a sea lion, whose upthrust head and nose are at the the top of the pole. At the base is a bear figure.
