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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

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

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

Alert Bay

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Bear Totem from Kitimat, 1898 (Symbol of Strength) Dr. Raley and Chief Sepass of Skowkale

AM54-S4-: In P5.2
Item
[1934?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Dr. Raley of Coqualeetza, with Chief Sepass of Skowkale and his daughter

AM54-S4-: In P5.1
Item
1934

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

Mrs. Tommy Clair and Family

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

Summer on Quatsino Sound

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-84
Item
[193-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a canoe with a sail

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

[Mrs. August Jack (Swanania or Marion) Khahtsahlano holding a baby]

AM54-S4-: Port P469
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[First Nations burial platforms]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-627
Item
[ca. 1924]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[An unidentified First Nations girl]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-398
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Indian salmon fishing on the Bulkley River, B.C.

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1112
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Sunset of His Race

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-86
Item
1913 ; reproduced [ca. 1949]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows an elderly man standing on the beach near Quatsino

[First Nations men in canoe on the Skeena River]

AM54-S4-: VLP 96.1
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Ta-He-Sum-Sel

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-22
Item
1910 ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

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

[Siwash people at Cape Mudge Reserve near Campbell River]

AM54-S4-: In P135
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Village of Wat-Tese

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-51
Item
1910 ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograh shows the Village of Quatsino from the water

[A group of unidentified First Nations people]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-747
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[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 "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-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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Que-Mor-Lete "Old Susan"

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-23
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

Te-Que-Na "The Village Gossip"

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-17
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

War-Ne-La "The Medicine Woman"

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-48
Item
[190?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Squamish Indian band practising]

AM54-S4-: In P45
Item
1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Chief Joe Capilano at far right

[Unidentified people standing at the prow of a ship]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-93
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

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-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

Grandma and the Baby

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

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-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

Ruins of Fort Rupert

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-71
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Money Potlatch by Ya-Cou-Thet

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-46
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Nemoo-Quatle and blankets decorated with money

The New Baby

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-12
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a grandmother holding a baby

The Return at Sundown

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-82
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows an indistinct canoe with a plaited cedar bark sail

Wa-Eno at Home

AM54-S4-1-A-15-: A-15-39
Item
[190-?] ; reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the inside of a longhouse

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