Description: The 'Ksan performance group re-enacting the story of the warrior chief Nehl'xt or 'Nekt at 'Ksan Historical Village. The story takes place at 'Battle Hill' near Gitwangak village. 'Nekt was an aggressive warrior and led many successful raids against neighbouring tribes. He is remembered and celebrated by the Gitxsan people as a powerful and great leader.
Date: 1912
Description: Tsonoqwa figure which originally faced a debtors house with arms outstretched to show it was waiting for a marriage payment from another household in the village (sources say the transaction was between a Chief Herbert Johnson and his father in law). When the payment was made the figure was rotated toward the sea to acknowledge the payment.
Date: 1917-05
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: Tsonoqwa facing seaward to signify payment of delinquent marriage transaction. This figure once held three carved coppers, one on its head and one in each hand.
Date: 1920
Description: Tsonoqwa facing out to sea and holding coppers to signify delinquent marriage payment was made. The coppers were eventually removed or succumbed to the elements..
Date: 1912
Name(s): Carr, Emily, 1871-1945
Description: This painting was done by Emily Carr, 1871-1945 while in the field. It is of a Tsonoqwa figure that stood outside Chief Herbert Johnson's House. A Bill Holm, 1943-2009 reconstruction of this piece is now on display in the portico in front of the Burke Museum at the University of Washington, Seattle.
Description: Woven Shirt in the collection of the Museum of the American indian.
Description: Peacemaker shirt adorned with rows of fastened deer hooves suggest this shirt is to be danced. Black tail deer hooves on leather. Donated by Capt. Edward Gustavus Fast, 1868
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Kalugwis or Qalagwis, now known to many as Turnour Island, was the primary winter residence of the Lawitʼsis (Tlowitsis) Nation. Lawitʼsis territories spanned the coastal area of Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia from ancient history until the early 1960s. In the 1960s, the British Columbia government closed down the monthly hospital ship and school on Qalagwis. With little prospect of schooling and access to health care, the Tlowitsis community left the island. In the diaspora that…
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Kalugwis or Qalagwis, now known to many as Turnour Island, was the primary winter residence of the Lawitʼsis (Tlowitsis) Nation. Lawitʼsis territories spanned the coastal area of Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia from ancient history until the early 1960s. In the 1960s, the British Columbia government closed down the monthly hospital ship and school on Qalagwis. With little prospect of schooling and access to health care, the Tlowitsis community left the island. In the diaspora that…
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Kalugwis or Qalagwis, now known to many as Turnour Island, was the primary winter residence of the Lawitʼsis (Tlowitsis) Nation. Lawitʼsis territories spanned the coastal area of Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia from ancient history until the early 1960s. In the 1960s, the British Columbia government closed down the monthly hospital ship and school on Qalagwis. With little prospect of schooling and access to health care, the Tlowitsis community left the island. In the diaspora that…
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Kalugwis or Qalagwis, now known to many as Turnour Island, was the primary winter residence of the Lawitʼsis (Tlowitsis) Nation. Lawitʼsis territories spanned the coastal area of Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia from ancient history until the early 1960s. In the 1960s, the British Columbia government closed down the monthly hospital ship and school on Qalagwis. With little prospect of schooling and access to health care, the Tlowitsis community left the island. In the diaspora that…
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Kalugwis or Qalagwis, now known to many as Turnour Island, was the primary winter residence of the Lawitʼsis (Tlowitsis) Nation. Lawitʼsis territories spanned the coastal area of Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia from ancient history until the early 1960s. In the 1960s, the British Columbia government closed down the monthly hospital ship and school on Qalagwis. With little prospect of schooling and access to health care, the Tlowitsis community left the island. In the diaspora that…
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Kalugwis or Qalagwis, now known to many as Turnour Island, was the primary winter residence of the Lawitʼsis (Tlowitsis) Nation. Lawitʼsis territories spanned the coastal area of Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia from ancient history until the early 1960s. In the 1960s, the British Columbia government closed down the monthly hospital ship and school on Qalagwis. With little prospect of schooling and access to health care, the Tlowitsis community left the island. In the diaspora that…
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Kalugwis or Qalagwis, now known to many as Turnour Island, was the primary winter residence of the Lawitʼsis (Tlowitsis) Nation. Lawitʼsis territories spanned the coastal area of Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia from ancient history until the early 1960s. In the 1960s, the British Columbia government closed down the monthly hospital ship and school on Qalagwis. With little prospect of schooling and access to health care, the Tlowitsis community left the island. In the diaspora that…
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Kalugwis or Qalagwis, now known to many as Turnour Island, was the primary winter residence of the Lawitʼsis (Tlowitsis) Nation. Lawitʼsis territories spanned the coastal area of Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia from ancient history until the early 1960s. In the 1960s, the British Columbia government closed down the monthly hospital ship and school on Qalagwis. With little prospect of schooling and access to health care, the Tlowitsis community left the island. In the diaspora that…
