Kwakiutl: seascape footage of Johnstone and Georgia Straits from ship board; totem poles at B.C. Packers, Alert Bay.
Culture or time period:
Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)
Collection date:
1960-1965
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Totem poles, Video recordings (moving images), and Video recordings (physical artifacts)
Function:
5.1 Religion and Divination: Objects and garb associated with practices reflecting submission, devotion, obedience, and service to supernatural agencies