Village, Blunden Harbor, B.C.; 1951. Village abandoned in 1966. Interior of large house on left is photo 13-6870. Large house collapsed in the late 1950s.
Donor:
William R. Heick
Collection place:
Blunden Harbor, British Columbia, Canada
Culture or time period:
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Collector:
William R. Heick
Collection date:
1951
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Accession date:
March 22, 2000
Department:
Still and motion photography
Dimensions:
length 29.845 centimeters and width 27.305 centimeters
Comment:
Per labels provided by Ira Jacknis: Village, seen from the water. Blunden Harbour, B.C.; 1951. Northwest Coast villages, which were typically sited along the shore of a river or ocean, were intended to be seen from the water. The previous photograph shows s the interior of the large house on the left. Next to it one can see the more recent houses of milled lumber, which had replaced dwellings made of large hand-hewn cedar planks. The inhabitants of Blunden Harbour abandoned their village around 1966 for a more convenient location on Vancouver Island. The house at the extreme right of the photograph belonged to the artist Willie Seaweed. (related: 13-6870)