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[Harry James sitting with masks]

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."

[Women] preparing skins

Photograph shows two women scraping a moose hide in a frame. Caption found on the front of image: "Squaws preparing skins."

Powell Lake

Item is a map of southwestern British Columbia from Bute Inlet to Alta Lake and Chilko Lake to northern Gabriola Island showing Crown granted land, surveyed timber leases and licenses, Indian Reserves, government reserves, land district and park boundaries, nautical distances, municipalities, cities and villages, telegraph and telephone lines, pipelines, railways, government agents' offices, mining and sub-mining recording offices, post offices, lighthouses, roads, and elevations of geographical features.

[Group portrait of the Maclure, McColl and McLagan families]

People identified (left to right): Top row: Kenith McColl, Hazel V. McLagan, Fredric S. Maclure, Sarah Ann McLagan, John C. Maclure, Samuel Maclure, Margaret Maclure, Catherine Maclure. Middle row: Marguerite McLagan, Martha McColl, John C. Maclure, Martha Maclure, Susan E. Maclure, Florence A. Maclure, Doris D. McLagan. Bottom row: Barbara Maclure, Colin M. McColl, Jessie McColl, John C. McColl, Margaret Maclure, Patric D. McLagan.

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