Canoes carrying Gwat'sinux people and goods
http://localhistory.vpl.ca/link/photos18993
- Photographer / Studio
- Leeson, Ben W.
- Date
- 1912
- Accession Number
- 14084
- Material Type
- photograph
- Content
- In the accession binder: Paying for the bride.
- Photographer / Studio
- Leeson, Ben W.
- Date
- 1912
- Content
- In the accession binder: Paying for the bride.
- Blankets are in one canoe and basins in another. These people are also in 14050 and 14050B.
- Part of a collection of photographs Leeson was commissioned to submit for the University of Pennsylvania's Museum Journal. See Volume 4 number 3 (1913). Also see Harvard's Peabody Museum object 2004.29.3505.
- From the journal: A wedding ceremony. After the speeches have been made and the songs finished, the blankets are unloaded to pay for the bride.
- Geographic Location
- British Columbia - Quatsino Sound
- Accession Number
- 14084
- Material Type
- photograph
- Physical Description
- Glass negative (20x25 cm)
- Copy negative (10x13 cm)
- Copy print (20x25 cm)
- Copyright
- Public Domain
Images