All Images – First Nations

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Images with the accession 1986.229 are part of the Denzil Ridout fonds.

Images with the accession 1993.049 are part of the From Mission to Partnership Photograph collection.

Images with the accession 1996.095 are part of the United Church of Canada. Division of Mission in Canada fonds.

Images with the accession 1998.165 are part of the Bessie French fonds.

661 images
Two people, barely visible are standing next to a totem pole on the beach. There are houses and trees in the background.

[Rivers Inlet Cannery : Wuikinuxv totem pole]

Rivers Inlet, 1930

First Nation: Wuikinuxv

Photographer: PH. Doney, Toronto

UCCA, 1993.049P/68
Old totem pole at Rivers Inlet Cannery

Old totem pole at Rivers Inlet Cannery

Rivers Inlet, 1930

First Nation: Wuikinuxv

Photographer: H. Doney, Toronto

UCCA, 1993.049P/69
High contrast image of a totem pole to the left of two houses. Trees surround the houses.

[Houses and totem pole at Rivers Inlet, B.C.]

Rivers Inlet, [19--]

First Nation: Wuikinuxv

UCCA, 1993.049P/71
Carved house post in the image of a person.

[Wuikinuxv house post, Rivers Inlet, B.C.]

Rivers Inlet, [19--?]

First Nation: Wuikinuxv

UCCA, 1993.049P/72
A group of people are sitting indoors around a fire. Blankets are hanging from lines around them.

[Chief Albert Harry of Wuikinuxv Nation with family at his home in Kítit Village]

Rivers Inlet, ca. 1938

First Nation: Wuikinuxv

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Harry, Ned Wesley, Lila Wakus, and Tommy Hyclamus with wife and child.

UCCA, 1993.049P/73
Close up on totem pol in front of wooden building. A label on the bottom reads: Totem poles, Hazelton, B.C.

Totem poles, Hazelton, B.C.

Hazelton, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Canadian Photo Pugh Specialty, Toronto

UCCA, 1993.049P/84
An indigenous person stands in front of totem pole wearing traditional clothing and holding a hand drum.

[Casbit William, a Witsuwit'en medicine man at Hagwilget Village near new Hazelton]

Hazelton, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

UCCA, 1993.049P/85
Mulitple totem poles lined in front of wooden buildings.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/98
Mulitple totem poles lined in front of wooden buildings in distance. A wooden fence crosses grassy field in front.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/99
Mulitple totem poles lined in front of wooden buildings.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/100
Mulitple totem poles lined in front of wooden buildings.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/101
One totem pole is in the centre of the image, a wooden fence in front. A cow is in a grassy field in front of the fence.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/102
A totem pole stands beside two wooden buildings.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/103
Close up of totem pole, showing bottom carvings.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/104
Close up of totem pole, showing bottom carvings. A wooden house is on the right side of the image.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/105
Totem pole is nexxt to a monument surrounded by a fence in front of a wooden building.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/106
A totem pole in front of two wooden buildings.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

9UCCA, 1993.049P/107
Two toem poles in front of a fence. A wooden building is on the right side of the image.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/108
Two totem poles in front of wooden building with two wooden animal carvings in between the poles.

Totem poles, Kispiox, B.C.

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/109
Two Indigenous adults standing side facing with two Indigenous chilren. One child is wearing a dress and holding a doll, the other is holding a drum.

[Holland family]

Kispiox, [19--]

First Nation: Gitsxan

Photographer: Miss Blackwood

UCCA, 1993.049P/110