Photo showing Haisla Astronomers Basketball Team in front of Recreation Hall, Front row left to right: John Shaw, Tom Robinson, Harry Amos, Edwin Smith, Second row left to right: James green, Gordon Robinson, Walter Bolton, Back row left to right: Manager Tim Starr, Rod Bolton, Wilred Wilson and Coach Stan Shaw.
Photo showing Haisla Astronomers Basketball Team in front of Recreation Hall, Front row left to right: John Shaw, Tom Robinson, Harry Amos, Edwin Smith, Second row left to right: James green, Gordon Robinson, Walter Bolton, Back row left to right: Manager Tim Starr, Rod Bolton, Wilred Wilson and Coach Stan Shaw.
Photograph of Haisla lacrosse team, Raley's Warriors posing for a picture in front of a dugout canoe given to Reverend Raley at the Community Hall at the Kitamaat Mission, BC.
Photograph of Haisla lacrosse team, Raley's Warriors posing for a picture in front of a dugout canoe given to Reverend Raley at the Community Hall at the Kitamaat Mission, BC.
1 photograph: b&w; 7.1 x 12.5 cm
1 photograph: b&w; 20.3 x 24.8 cm
Scope and Content
Photo showing the residential home of Charlie Shaw and his family in Kitamaat Village, was burnt down in 1991.
Notes
Wood was brought from a building in Butedale which was built in 1921. It had a high ceiling and was designed to hold people for small feasts.(David Shaw, 2024)
Photograph of Micah Shaw carving a canoe with possibly Charlie Shaw, his son, and heating rocks for the steaming with a boat in background.
Notes
According to Mike Robinson, the small winding creek at the far right as known as Qwenish, and was a route the Haida would sometims take inland to raid the Haisla.
Part of series of seven photographs depicting the construction of a canoe using traditional tools and methods.