Tsimshian
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The Tsimshian are an Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their communities are mostly in coastal British Columbia in Terrace and Prince Rupert, and Metlakatla, Alaska on
Tsimshian drumming in 1999
Tsimshian Nisga'a stone mask, made around 1870 - greenish hard stone (Gabbro), pigment; from the Alphonse Pinart collection, Musée du quai Branly in Paris. This stone mask has a twin, without apertures for eyes, residing in the Canadian Museum of History. Separated over one hundred years, the two masks were reunited 1975, when the Paris mask travelled to Canada to appear in the exhibition "Images Stone: B.C." It was then that the relationship between the two masks, expressions of the same face, was re-discovered.
Bag with 65 Inlaid Gambling Sticks, Tsimshian (Native American), 19th century, Brooklyn Museum
Tsimshian bentwood box featuring formline painting, 1850, collection of the UBC Anthropology Museum
Annette Island
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Annette Island or Tàakw.àani is an island in the Gravina Islands of the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean on the southeastern coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is at. It is about 18 km lo
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…Northwest Coast of North America. Their communities are mostly in coastal British Columbia in Terrace and Prince Rupert, and Metlakatla, Alaska on Annette Island, the only reservation in Alaska. The Tsimshian estimate there are 45,000 Tsimshian people and approximately 10,000 members are federally registered in…
Annette Island Panorama
Fish trap on Tamgas Stream, Annette Island, July 1910
Annette Island Airfield, 1941
Annette Island landscape