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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Boys in Entrance to Whale House

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Date: 1910 to 1915
Description: Boys posing with Hamatsa initiate in the Whale House entrance at Xwamdasbe'.

Boys Posing

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Date: 1924
Name(s): Shotridge, Louis
Description: Boys and a woman on a rocky beach

Bracelet Making

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Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making a bracelet.

Bracelet Making

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Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making a bracelet.

Bracelet Making

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Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making a bracelet at the 'Ksan workshop. Worn for centuries, the cuff bracelet has always been an important potlatch gifts and symbols of rank along the Northwest Coast. When contact with European settlers and travelers increased, bracelets were more often made from gold and silver coins that were hammered flat, cut into shape and then engraved with crest symbols. Today, the Northwest Coast cuff bracelet has evolved into one of the region's classic art forms.

Bracelet Making

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Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making a bracelet at the 'Ksan workshop. Worn for centuries, the cuff bracelet has always been an important potlatch gifts and symbols of rank along the Northwest Coast. When contact with European settlers and travelers increased, bracelets were more often made from gold and silver coins that were hammered flat, cut into shape and then engraved with crest symbols. Today, the Northwest Coast cuff bracelet has evolved into one of the region's classic art forms.

Bracelet Making

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Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making a bracelet at the 'Ksan workshop. Worn for centuries, the cuff bracelet has always been an important potlatch gifts and symbols of rank along the Northwest Coast. When contact with European settlers and travelers increased, bracelets were more often made from gold and silver coins that were hammered flat, cut into shape and then engraved with crest symbols. Today, the Northwest Coast cuff bracelet has evolved into one of the region's classic art forms.

Bracelet Making

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Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making a bracelet at the 'Ksan workshop. Worn for centuries, the cuff bracelet has always been an important potlatch gifts and symbols of rank along the Northwest Coast. When contact with European settlers and travelers increased, bracelets were more often made from gold and silver coins that were hammered flat, cut into shape and then engraved with crest symbols. Today, the Northwest Coast cuff bracelet has evolved into one of the region's classic art forms.

Bracelet Making

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Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making a bracelet at the 'Ksan workshop. Worn for centuries, the cuff bracelet has always been an important potlatch gifts and symbols of rank along the Northwest Coast. When contact with European settlers and travelers increased, bracelets were more often made from gold and silver coins that were hammered flat, cut into shape and then engraved with crest symbols. Today, the Northwest Coast cuff bracelet has evolved into one of the region's classic art forms.

Bracelet Making

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Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making a bracelet at the 'Ksan workshop. Worn for centuries, the cuff bracelet has always been an important potlatch gifts and symbols of rank along the Northwest Coast. When contact with European settlers and travelers increased, bracelets were more often made from gold and silver coins that were hammered flat, cut into shape and then engraved with crest symbols. Today, the Northwest Coast cuff bracelet has evolved into one of the region's classic art forms.

Bracelet Making

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Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making a bracelet at the 'Ksan workshop. Worn for centuries, the cuff bracelet has always been an important potlatch gifts and symbols of rank along the Northwest Coast. When contact with European settlers and travelers increased, bracelets were more often made from gold and silver coins that were hammered flat, cut into shape and then engraved with crest symbols. Today, the Northwest Coast cuff bracelet has evolved into one of the region's classic art forms.

Bracelet Making

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Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making a bracelet at the 'Ksan workshop. Worn for centuries, the cuff bracelet has always been an important potlatch gifts and symbols of rank along the Northwest Coast. When contact with European settlers and travelers increased, bracelets were more often made from gold and silver coins that were hammered flat, cut into shape and then engraved with crest symbols. Today, the Northwest Coast cuff bracelet has evolved into one of the region's classic art forms.

Branches of a Cottonwood

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Date: 1972
Description: Cottonwood tree. Gitanyow area, B.C.

Bridge to Shakes' Island

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Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Outside of Chief Shakes X'átgu Hít (Mudshark House). The outside has the formline design of a bear, the entrance is in the bear's stomach.

Brochure

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Date: 1972
Description: Ksan Brochure