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

Ga-La-Kum the wife of Tyee Cas-E-Lus

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-47
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Going for Clams

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-43
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a woman and her daughter in a canoe

Grandma and the Baby

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-44
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Indian Graves at Old Fort Rupert

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-69
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of a longhouse]

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-59
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a totem

Kla-E-He-Tla - Mrs. Wallace - The Owner of Jewellery

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-41
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait showing brooches made from coins

Kla-Quo-Tla, or "Old Harry" an Old Indian Sealer

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-76
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Korpreno Tom or Sealing Tom

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-35
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a man demonstrating a harpoon

Lady Warcas

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-45
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shouldes portrait

Leeson Collection

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-89
Item
[ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is a contact sheet comprised of 65 images from the album

Mrs. Jim

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-53
Item
[ca. 1894] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Mrs. Tommy Clair and Family

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-77
Item
[ca. 1930] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Na-Na-Que-Tla

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-7
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Full-length portrait showing artifacts

Na-Na-Quit-La

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-28
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Native Construction

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-40
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows carved longhouse beam supports (totems)

Nat-Na-Moo-Quitle or "Jumbo"

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-75
Item
1936 ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Ne-Kar-At-See, An Old Time Princess

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-37
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a girl standing in a longhouse doorway surrounded by a totem

Ne-Kow-Se-La (Mrs. Warcas)

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-3
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a head and shoulders portrait and a totem pole

Ne-Kow-Se-Sla (Mrs. Warcas) with her grandson

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-6
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Ne-Kow-Se-Sla, The Legend Bearer

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-34
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait showing a cedar root fiber hat

Ne-Moo-Quat-Le - A New Made Chief and his [Long]House

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-9
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Ne-No-Le-O - Mama Yockland picking salmon berries

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-54
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Orwat and Wife ("Old Susan")

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-15
Item
1898 ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Passing on the Legends

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-38
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Legend Bearer relating a story in a longhouse

Paying for the Bride

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-60
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows wedding guests unloading blankets and other goods

Potlatch Group

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-58
Item
[between 1897 and 1908] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

Potlatch Image

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-36
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a totem

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