Query: *
Portrait of Johnny Claxton (Saanich) with Canoe
William A. Newcombe and George Gustav Heye photographs from British Columbia
Creators:
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Newcombe, William A.
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957
Dates:
bulk 1934-1938
1912-1913
1929
Size:
45 Photographic prints (Silver Gelatin DOP)
20 Copy negatives
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.001.051
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

Photographs shot by William A. Newcombe during three collecting trips to British Columbia with George Gustav Heye, director of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Between 1934 and 1938 Newcombe and Heye collected and photographed among the collecting ethnographic materials from the Saanich, Esquimalt, Cowichan, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo), and Nuxalk (Bellacoola) communities.

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