Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Located at the mouth of Knights Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in the final crushing blow to potlatching. In December 1921 Chief Dan Cranmer hosted a large potlatch that had taken seventeen years of planning and preparation. By having the potlatch at ‚Mimkwamlis, Chief…
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Located at the mouth of Knights Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in the final crushing blow to potlatching. In December 1921 Chief Dan Cranmer hosted a large potlatch that had taken seventeen years of planning and preparation. By having the potlatch at ‚Mimkwamlis, Chief…
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Located at the mouth of Knights Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in the final crushing blow to potlatching. In December 1921 Chief Dan Cranmer hosted a large potlatch that had taken seventeen years of planning and preparation. By having the potlatch at ‚Mimkwamlis, Chief…
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Located at the mouth of Knights Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in the final crushing blow to potlatching. In December 1921 Chief Dan Cranmer hosted a large potlatch that had taken seventeen years of planning and preparation. By having the potlatch at ‚Mimkwamlis, Chief…
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Located at the mouth of Knights Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in the final crushing blow to potlatching. In December 1921 Chief Dan Cranmer hosted a large potlatch that had taken seventeen years of planning and preparation. By having the potlatch at ‚Mimkwamlis, Chief…
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Located at the mouth of Knights Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in the final crushing blow to potlatching. In December 1921 Chief Dan Cranmer hosted a large potlatch that had taken seventeen years of planning and preparation. By having the potlatch at ‚Mimkwamlis, Chief…
Date: 1970
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Gitladzok map.
Date: 1902
Name(s): Carr, Emily, 1871-1945
Description: East end of K'uuna.
Date: 1901
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: View of the mortuaries clustered near the north end of the village with the islet on the right in the foreground.
Date: 1901
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: View of the mortuaries clustered near the south end of the village. The houses and their poles further to the south (left) were badly burned in a village fire and were not focused on during early visits.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Lagis pole at the village centre.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Beach and shoreline at village site. Kaisun is a village on the west coast of Moresby Island. It is located at the east end of Inskip Channel, due south of Cha'atl village, with which it has close ties.
Date: 1925 to 1928
Description: Detail: View of house frame with stone monolith in the foreground below the hill. this photo was taken after Harlan Ingersoll Smith, 1872-1940 had the poles and posts of the house re-carved and re-erected as part of a National Museum of Canada project.
Date: 1925 to 1928
Description: Detail: View of house frame with stone monolith in the foreground below the hill. This photo was taken after Harlan Ingersoll Smith, 1872-1940 had the poles and posts of the house re-carved and re-erected as part of a National Museum of Canada project.
Date: 1927
Name(s): Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1939
Description: The Kitselas Canyon and the village site of Gitlaxdzawk. The On-It-Sleeps Raven pole can be seen protruding above the trees.
