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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Totem Pole Being Carved

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Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of Totem Pole being carved. The section that is being carved is between the whale figures eyes/eyebrows, and behind the bear's long tongue

Totem Pole Detail

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Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: This pole originaly stood at Tanu village on Haida Gwaii. It was refurbished and raised in a park at Prince Rupert, where this picture was taken.

Totem Pole in the Forest

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Date: 1913
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F.‏ (Charles Frederick),‏ ‎1851-1924
Description: Overgrown village siet of Chaatl.

Totem Pole in the Sitka Totem Pole Park

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Date: 1960 to 1970
Description: Kaigani Haida totem pole at Sitka. Colour slides collected and donated by Adelaide de Menil. Slide jacket's contain numbers and some descriptions, which have been copied to the titles. all slides read: Schallerer's Photo Shop, 212 Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska.

Totem Pole Profile

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Date: 1967
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. 67-7-

Totem Pole Remains

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Date: 1971
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Remains of the Beaver pole.

Totem Pole Remains

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: remnants of a totem in Tanu

Totem Pole Remains

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: remnants of a totem in Tanu

Totem Pole Remains

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: remnants of a totem in Tanu

Totem Poles

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Date: 1971
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: The Whole Being Pole belonged to house five on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).

Totem Poles

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Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Top figures of totems. What appears to be a shaman figure at the top of the Woodworm Pole can be seen on the left.

Totem Poles

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Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Tall pole with thunderbird (kwankwanxwalige') on top is Lagis pole. Almost 100 years old. Put up in 1920- Charlie Dawson says he was 5 years old when it was put up. Shorter pole is George Scow Pole.

Totem Poles

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Description: carved figure on a pole

Totem Poles

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Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Recarved Totems at Prince Rupert

Totem Poles

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Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Various poles at Klawock. Carved figures on the poles include a number of human or ancestor figures as well as bears, seals, Raven, Bullhead and whales.