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Language:English
Date:1952-1953
Contributor:Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Beynon, William, 1888-1958
Subject:British Columbia--History | Carving | Ethnography | Medicine | Material culture
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume
Description: A work intended as a sequel to Barbeau (1953) Haida myths. In addition to discussing Skidegate and Masset carvers and their work, the author presents material on carvers as medicine men, material on shamanism and witchcraft, classification of the subjects of statuettes (chiefs and illustration of myths). An appendix includes myths recorded by William Beynon among the Skidegate, Tsimshian, and Nisga'a, from 1952-1954.
Collection:Haida carvers in argillite (Mss.970.6.B23h)
Culture:
Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat
Language:English
Date:May 28, 1846; 1950
Contributor:Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Subject:Linguistics | Graves | Masks | Basketry | Art | Material culture
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 items
Description: Gallatin's letter to Messrs. Lea and Blanchard regarding returning their copy of Horatio Hale on Indian languages west of the Rocky Mountains which Gallatin borrowed to study. Trying to get Library of Congress to loan him another. Barbeau's "List of photos...research in whaler's and clipper ships' activities" including New England, New York, and Pennsylvania materials, including tombstones of eighteenth century; Northwest Coast carvings and masks; Haida argillite carvings; Eastern Woodlands baskets and bark vessels, etc. Descriptive catalogue of items from Peabody Museum of Salem, Harvard, Yale, American Museum of Natural History, U.S. National Museum, Queen's University of Kingston, Ontario.
Collection:Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200)