Canoe Steaming
Carl and Joe Martin steam a canoe near Tofino. Click to play video. The Northwest Coast is rightly famous for the superb dugout canoes made by First Nations, a craft which continues to the present day....
View ArticleAnnotation: Collison Bay
Annotation of the Collison Bay night-time, low tide excavations. The Collison Bay site in Haida Gwaii posed some unusual challenges, some natural and others of our own making. The site is found in...
View ArticleNorthwest Coast in New Zealand
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...
View ArticlePeabody Museum Ethnographic Collection
Haida carved cockle. Source: Peabody. The Peabody Museum at Harvard has a predictably great collection from the Northwest Coast. I’m more drawn to the archaeological-type artifacts vs. the masks and...
View ArticleListening to Our Ancestors: An exhibit at the National Museum of the American...
Coast Salish Cod Lure. Source: NMAI “Listening to Our Ancestors” is a nice online exhibit which resulted from a process by which 11 west coast First Nations and Tribes came to the National Museum of...
View ArticleRaven and the First …. Immigrant
Raven and the First People (Bill Reid), and Raven and the First Immigrant (Nicholas Galanin). Source: Nicholas Galanin, http://silverjackson.tumblr.com/ I’m a big fan of classic Northwest Coast art –...
View ArticleMystery Pipe
Mystery panel pipe. 12 inches long by 4 inches high. I got contacted the other day by someone who was handling the estate of an elderly art collector. The entire collection is African with one...
View ArticleDixon’s Underwater Entrance
Waters around OYK Cave. Source: Polarfield.com E. James (Jim) Dixon, now at the University of New Mexico, is pretty well known on the Northwest Coast for his pioneering work at the 10 to 12,000 year...
View ArticleJobs on Haida Gwaii and at WSU
Archaeological Science on Haida Gwaii. So I’ve never posted job ads here before and I may never do so again, but there are two ones posted right now with a lot of potential for readers of this blog:...
View ArticlePublic talks in Vancouver and Victoria
Unusual fish hook fashioned from a canine tooth. Ca. 3000 years old, Burnaby Narrows, Haida Gwaii, 2012. Photo by Jenny Cohen. Quick note to say there are two forthcoming public talks that might be of...
View ArticleASBC Victoria Talk: Tuesday September 16, Jenny Cohen on Paleoethnobotany of...
2002 excavations at Kilgii Gwaay Site. Paleoethnobotany of Kilgii Gwaay: a 10,700 year old Ancestral Haida Archaeological Wet Site Jenny Cohen Tuesday, September 16, 2014, 7:30 pm Cornett Building B129...
View ArticleHaida stone carving from Chumash Territory, California?
If someone out there in webland makes a link to my blog, and then someone else clicks on that link, I might be able to tell which site is referring to me. Sometimes this leads to unexpected...
View ArticleASBC Victoria November 21st Public Talk: Underwater Survey for Late...
With sea levels rising by at least 120m globally at the end of the last ice age, conventional archaeological wisdom has been that sites on ancient coastlines are now deeply drowned. As is so often the...
View ArticleJarring Finds
One great thing about not keeping up with a blog is so much stuff accumulates like lint in the internavel that it is easy pickings to get material to post . . . . for example, the not very well …...
View ArticleHaida Gwaii, 1787
Old Maps are Cool. Enough said. Or maybe not quite enough. The Library of Congress has some nice documents online, and they don’t skimp on the resolution. You can download Captain George Dixon‘s 1787...
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