Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
[Harry James sitting with masks]
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- Photograph
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Photographer's stamps on print attribute photograph to Steffens-Colmer Photo Company and Don Coltman Photo
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[between 1941 and 1943] (Creation)
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1 photograph : b&w acetate negative ; 12 x 9 cm
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Item is a photograph taken at the Nanaimo Reserve showing Harry James with masks. Inscription on verso of print: "No. 2994 - Indian ceremonial masks are handed down generation to generation. This Indian is nearly 80 years of age and keeps these masks hidden in an old chest in a smoke house on the Reservation. Considerable coaxing was necessary before he would produce them for photographing. It is his belief that if he should lose them a curse would descend upon his family. Don Coltman Photo."
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Mirroring, acetic acid
Agfa Safety Film
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by Donn B.A. Williams in 1987
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Original negative is in frozen storage. Please refer to the digital file.
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General note
Description revised 2023: Title revised from “[“Cowichan Band Indian with very old masks, Nanaimo Reserve”]” that had been supplied by the caption for a copy of the same photograph at the Royal BC Museum.
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Photographer's number 2994
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Name access points
- Coltman, Don (Photographer)
- Steffens-Colmer Studios Ltd. (Photographer)