Photographs of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 178
Description of Photographs
Photographs of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, created during the summer of 2012, that document the Haida and Kwakwak'awakw (also known as Kwakiutl) people and cultures.
Images of Haida include portraits of Haida artisans Christian White and Vernon White as well as dancers from the Tluu Xaada Naay Society (Canoe Peoples House) including Roberta Kennedy (Haida name Kung Jaadee), Cynthia Anne Samuels (Haida name Gulee), Tiffany Amber Vanderhoop, and Bryce Williams (member of the Coast Salish). Includes images from the coronation of Allen Davidson (Haida name Skil Hiilans) from the St'langng Laanaas clan as one of the potlatched hereditary leaders of Haida, which was also attended by fellow Haida leader Roy Collison (Haida name Gya awhlans) of the Kuun Laanaas clan. Other images include the burning of a headdress by Georgia Liddle Bennett (Haida name K'inggay 'liwaans).
Images related to the Kwakwak'awakw include views at Alert Bay on Cormorant Island of totem poles, the "big house," and the derelict St. Michael’s Indian Residential School. A group of images document a potlatch at the big house in Alert Bay led by Beau Dick (Kwakwak'awakw name Walas Gwa’yam) that includes an initiation ceremony for the Hamatsa society, dances, and the burning of traditional masks with identified attendees including Corey Bullpit, Bill Cranmer, Gwaliga Hart, and Christian White.
The collection also includes a view of the mural, Sunset Whale Tail, by Jeff King at Prince Rupert.
Signed, numbered, and dated by the photographer on versos of prints.
Edition number 1 of 15.
Images of Haida include portraits of Haida artisans Christian White and Vernon White as well as dancers from the Tluu Xaada Naay Society (Canoe Peoples House) including Roberta Kennedy (Haida name Kung Jaadee), Cynthia Anne Samuels (Haida name Gulee), Tiffany Amber Vanderhoop, and Bryce Williams (member of the Coast Salish). Includes images from the coronation of Allen Davidson (Haida name Skil Hiilans) from the St'langng Laanaas clan as one of the potlatched hereditary leaders of Haida, which was also attended by fellow Haida leader Roy Collison (Haida name Gya awhlans) of the Kuun Laanaas clan. Other images include the burning of a headdress by Georgia Liddle Bennett (Haida name K'inggay 'liwaans).
Images related to the Kwakwak'awakw include views at Alert Bay on Cormorant Island of totem poles, the "big house," and the derelict St. Michael’s Indian Residential School. A group of images document a potlatch at the big house in Alert Bay led by Beau Dick (Kwakwak'awakw name Walas Gwa’yam) that includes an initiation ceremony for the Hamatsa society, dances, and the burning of traditional masks with identified attendees including Corey Bullpit, Bill Cranmer, Gwaliga Hart, and Christian White.
The collection also includes a view of the mural, Sunset Whale Tail, by Jeff King at Prince Rupert.
Signed, numbered, and dated by the photographer on versos of prints.
Edition number 1 of 15.
Dates
- 2012
Creator
- Luck, Owen Craig, 1947- (Photographer)
Language of Materials
Inscriptions in English.
Conditions Governing Access
The Owen Luck, Photographs of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, are the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Owen Luck on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2013.
Arrangement
Arranged by the photographer.
Extent
5 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Photographs of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, created during the summer of 2012, and printed as 77 inkjet prints that document the Haida and Kwakwak'awakw (also known as Kwakiutl) people and cultures.
Owen Luck (born 1947)
Owen Luck is an American photographer known for his photography of Native American and First Nation Canadian life and history. In 1973, after serving two tours as a combat medic in Vietnam, Luck travelled to Pine Ridge, South Dakota to provide medical support during the occupation of Wounded Knee by the American Indian Movement (AIM). He also carried a camera and created an extensive record of the confrontation between AIM and the United States Marshals Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, and other law enforcement agencies. His account of that experience, "A Witness at Wounded Knee 1973," was published in The Princeton University Library Chronicle in 2006. In 1975 Luck documented the Menominee Warrior Society’s occupation of the abandoned Alexian Brothers Novitiate in Gresham, Wisconsin, near the Menominee Indian Reservation. Since 2004 he has worked among indigenous communities of the Pacific Northwest. Luck has donated photographs to Ogallala Lakota College in Pine Ridge, to the Haida Gwaii Museum in Skidegate, and to the Makah Museum in Neah Bay. Significant collections of his work are held by Princeton University Library and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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Each folder in the collection contains a single inkjet print.
Each folder in the collection contains a single inkjet print.
- Alert Bay (B.C.) -- Pictorial works
- Bennett, Georgia Liddle -- Portraits
- British Columbia -- Pictorial works
- Bullpit, Corey -- Portraits
- Coast Salish Indians -- Pictorial works
- Coast Salish Indians -- Portraits
- Cranmer, Bill -- Portraits
- Davidson, Allen -- Portraits
- Dick, Beau, 1955-2017 -- Portraits
- Haida Gwaii (B.C.) -- Pictorial works
- Haida Indians -- Pictorial works
- Haida Indians -- Portraits
- Hart, Gwaliga -- Portraits
- Indian masks -- British Columbia -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- Portraits
- Inkjet prints
- Kennedy, Roberta -- Portraits
- Kwakiutl Indians -- Pictorial works
- Kwakiutl Indians -- Portraits
- Kwakiutl Indians -- Rites and ceremonies -- Pictorial works
- Photographs
- Prince Rupert (B.C.) -- Pictorial works
- Samuels, Cynthia Anne -- Portraits
- St. Michael's Indian Residential School (Alert Bay, B.C.) -- Pictorial works
- Totem poles -- British Columbia -- Alert Bay
- Vanderhoop, Tiffany Amber -- Portraits
- White, Christian, 1962- -- Portraits
- White, Vernon, 1980- -- Portraits
- Williams, Bryce -- Portraits
- Title
- Guide to the Owen Luck, Photographs of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Matthew Daniel Mason
- Date
- February 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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Location
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