Black glass box with four sides and a clear glass base, open at top. The upper edge undulates from side to side. The outside surface is plain black, the inside surface of the four sides is etched with a distributive Northwest Coast design. A black and white photograph sits on the clear glass base, which is lit from below while installed/on display. The photograph shows a group of girls standing in front of the side of a building, with their teacher.

Photo-based work showing a section of the Museum's Great Hall in 1991. Image shows poles and house posts installed around the front area windows of the Great Hall (visible: A50019, A50001, A50006, A50036; partially visible: A50020, A50037). The outdoor exhibit area with the Haida House and Mortuary House are partially visible through the windows. Photograph is framed with white painted wood and plexiglas.

Photo-based work showing a section of the Museum's Great Hall in 1991. Image shows a large house post figure with slave figures crouched in front of it (A50009 d-f), as installed in the Great Hall. Photograph is framed with white painted wood and plexiglas.

Photo-based work showing a section of the Museum's Great Hall in 1991. Image shows a Kwakwaka'wakw bear house post (A50036) in front of the Great Hall windows. The view outside the windows shows a partial ocean view in front of mountains to the north, and part of a tree on the museum grounds. Photograph is framed with white painted wood and plexiglas.

Black glass box with four sides and a clear glass base, open at top. The upper edge undulates from side to side. The outside surface is plain black, the inside surface of the four sides is etched with a distributive Northwest Coast design. A black and white photograph sits on the clear glass base, which is lit from below while installed/on display. The photograph shows a large group of children sitting on the front steps of a building, with their teacher near the top.

Black glass box with four sides and a clear glass base, open at top. The upper edge undulates from side to side. The outside surface is plain black, the inside surface of the four sides is etched with a distributive Northwest Coast design. A black and white photograph sits on the clear glass base, which is lit from below while installed/on display. The photograph shows a group of fourteen children sitting on the lower front steps of a building, with their teacher sitting above them.

Black glass box with four sides and a clear glass base, open at top. The upper edge undulates from side to side. The outside surface is plain black, the inside surface of the four sides is etched with a distributive Northwest Coast design. A black and white photograph sits on the clear glass base, which is lit from below while installed/on display. The photograph shows two wooden houses, of which one has a carved and painted Northwest Coast archway panel over its central entrance.

Black glass box with four sides and a clear glass base, open at top. The upper edge undulates from side to side. The outside surface is plain black, the inside surface of the four sides is etched with a distributive Northwest Coast design. A black and white photograph sits on the clear glass base, which is lit from below when the box is installed for exhibition. The photograph shows an old B.C. coast First Nations village, from the water.

Small, irregularly shaped pieces of black charcoal.

A house beam styled after a soul-catcher, with a killer whale design. [CAK 26/05/2010]