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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

Ah-Ma-Qua, The Totem Carver

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-74
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

An Interior

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-79
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a totem-carved support beam

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

Bygones

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-65
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the remains (a double stone fireplace and chimney) of the Fort Rupert Hudson Bay Company's Post

Camp Fire Tales

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

Ceremonial Masks [of the Quatsino]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-3011
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

Graven Art - the front view of an ancient sandstone oil dish

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-66
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Indian Carving

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-80
Item
[193-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows two bent boxes and a feast dish

Indian Ceremonial Mask and Blankets

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-64
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the collection owned by Mr. Cadwalladar of Vancouver Island

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 Front View of an Indian Home

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-73
Item
1913 ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows totems supporting a carved beam

[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)

Native Houses Have Sun-Parlours

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-68
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows totem roof supports in front of the "home of the whale"

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

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