Masset, ca. 1924. Source: University of Canterbury, NZ.
I found myself poking around in a New Zealand archive at the University of Canterbury the other day and found some nice historic pictures from the NW Coast. These are assigned to the collection of John Macmillan Brown, an early New Zealand academic and, in retirement, an amateur anthropologist. I am guessing these pictures were taken by him in retirement. Most are undated; one carries a date of 1924. The subjects are familiar yet the views are new – the more we can catalogue the world’s pictures of the NW Coast, the better we can understand the processes of transformation which continue to unfold.
Update: fixed links, sort of. Note to web types: you should always provide stable URLs, none of this “your search has expired” junk. If you want your collections used, and you do, because you put them on the web, you need to make it so the results can be bookmarked and shared. Gosh.
Skidegate ca. 1924. Are those oarlocks on that canoe? Source: University of Canterbury.
