Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) ceremonial carving at Hatley Park

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Collection Creator: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation; Newcombe, William A.; Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957

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Collection Citation: Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William A. Newcombe and George Gustav Heye photographs from British Columbia, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

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Scope and Contents: Outdoor view of the two left upright carvings of a Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) ceremonial carving. Origially erected at Dsawadi, Knights Inlet, British Columbia, about 1884, it is pictured here at Hatley Park (James Dunsmuir estate) on Vancouver Island. The photograph was taken when the carving was collected by Heye and Newcombe for the MAI (catalog number 20/0303) in1938, though it was later sold to the Canadian Museum of History.

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William A. Newcombe and George Gustav Heye photographs from British Columbia

Creator

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation

Summary

Photographs shot by William A. Newcombe during three collecting trips to British Columbia with George Gustav Heye, director of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Between 1934 and 1938 Newcombe and Heye collected and photographed among the collecting ethnographic materials from the Saanich, Esquimalt, Cowichan, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo), and Nuxalk (Bellacoola)...