Date: 1972
Description: Murphy Stanley carving spoons for eating Soapberries also known as Indian ice-cream.
Date: 1972
Description: Murphy Stanley carving spoons for eating Soapberries also known as Indian ice-cream.
Date: 1972
Description: Murphy Stanley carving spoons for eating Soapberries also known as Indian ice-cream.
Date: 1972
Description: Murphy Stanley carving spoons for eating Soapberries also known as Indian ice-cream.
Date: 1972
Description: Murphy Stanley carving spoons for eating Soapberries also known as Indian ice-cream.
Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing carving at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton
Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing carving a mask at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Older gentleman carving a totem pole.
Date: 1972
Description: Screen carved and painted for Royal Bank's Headquarters on Georgia Street, Vancouver. Art works created by students of the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art located at the 'Ksan Historical Village. This 9-panel frieze was created by Earl Muldoe, Art Sterritt, Walter Harris, Alfred Joseph and Ken Mowatt.
Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing tools at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Woven cedar blanket with attached heads. Possibly to represent trophy heads taken in battle.
Date: 1972
Description: Chief and elder, Elsie Morrison, collecting and preparing cedar bark. These scenes of resource gathering were initiated in order to record some of the traditional practices of the Gitxsan people and to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers. 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 and William Beynon. The Book Builders…
Name(s): Halpin, Marjorie, M., 1937-
Description: Cedar bark headband, fabricated from multiple banded cedar bark ropes and a length of cedar bark fringe. Fastened by a length of european fabric.
Name(s): Duff, Wilson, 1925-1976
Description: Cedar bark necklace, consisting of a cedar bark rope with fastened fringe, bear claws and bone amulets.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Young girl posing for a picture with her woven basket.
