City of Vancouver Archives

A Ceremonial Group at a Potlatch

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-57
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

A Ceremonial Group at a Potlatch

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-55
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

A Deserted Village - O-Yar-Kum

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-62
Item
[193-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

A Family Album

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-87
Item
[ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is a reproduction of a collage of eleven of B.W. Leeson's photographs from the album

[A group of First Nations of northern British Columbia]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-3010
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

A Kwatsino (Quatsino) Grandad

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-8
Item
1893 ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a man with an elongated head

A Load of Clams

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-81
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows "Big Mary" and another woman

A "One Hundred Dollar" Potlatch

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-70
Item
[191-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a woman wearing a blanket covered with money

A Quatsino Grandma - O-Que-La-Yon

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-61
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Alert Bay

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-85
Item
1939 ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

A-Ma-Qua off to look at his traps at the head of the southeast arm of Quatsino Sound

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-13
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Am-At-Se (The Ah-Mat-Sa)

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-52
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a medicine man

Ancient and Modern

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-83
Item
[193-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a totem pole with a radio antenna

Ar-Tat-Se and her Grandma O-Que-La-Yen

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-27
Item
1900 ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Ar-tatse ("Lucy Moon")

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-1
Item
1900 ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Full-length portrait showing the daughter of Carlity of Quatsino Tribe in a cedar bark and sea shell costume

Ar-Te-Catse, A West Coast Morning

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-49
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a woman setting off to dig clams

Camp Fire Tales

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-42
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Chief Car-Li-Te's Potlatch

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-25
Item
1910 ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the inside of a longhouse

Chief Cas-e-lus

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-2
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Chief Warcas, "The Admiral"

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-63
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Chief wearing a naval uniform

Come For the Bride and Se-Wit, The Wit

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-26
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the prospective husband and part of the neighbouring tribe arriving by canoe

Cul-Tetsam, Passing of the Siwash

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-29
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of the ruined village Klaskeno in the background

Early British Columbia - A Potlatch to the Tyees

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-88
Item
[ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is the title page for the album created for the Earl of Athlone and the Princess Alice to commemorate their visit to Vancouver in 1941. Photograph shows a First Nations woman sitting beside a totem pole

Early Indian Scenes and Portraits, Vancouver Island (North)

AM54-S4-1-A-15
File
[1894?] - [1939?], reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

File is album containing photographs of West Coast First Nations people, works of art and buildings (interior and exterior views). The photographs in the album were originally taken by B.W. Leeson between 1894 and 1939 while he was living in Quatsino Sound, where he worked as a customs official. The album includes detailed captions written by Leeson.