RBCM Archives

Skidegate houses and monumental pole.

PDP08738
Item
ca. 1928

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One page in sketchbook.

Blank Ontario Drawing Book No. 1. Nass River, Q.C.I. sketchbook

PDP08918
Series
[1928]

Part of Emily Carr art collection

Sketchbook with drawings from Carr's 1928 sketching trip. Includes monumental poles, village sites, landscape and forest forms. Geographical areas are the Nass River and Haida Gwaii, with emphasis on Skedans village site.

Whale Skidegate

PDP08737
Item
ca. 1928

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One page in sketchbook.

Skidegate houses and monumental poles.

PDP08735
Item
ca. 1928

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One page in sketchbook.

Monumental pole, Skidegate.

PDP08736
Item
ca. 1928

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One page in sketchbook.

Detail of Haida monumental pole.

PDP08740
Item
ca. 1928

Part of Emily Carr art collection

One page in sketchbook.

Tanoo, Q.C.I.

PDP02145
Item
1913

Part of Emily Carr art collection

The item consists of an oil on canvas painting signed M.Emily Carr, titled "Tanoo Q.C.I." dating 1913 set within a wooden frame designed by Lawren Harris affixed by the executor's of Carr's estate.

Picnic with Edna Leary, Haida guide Clara Russ, and old Billie dog at Ts'aahl Llnagaay (Chaatl)

F-07756
Item
1912

Part of Flora Alfreda Hamilton Burns fonds

Item is a single photograph from one of the album pages (originally from a bound album) received in association with MS-2094.

The photograph depicts from left to right: Edna Leary, Emily Carr, and Clara Russ. In "Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr" (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006), Gerta Moray identifies the image in the following caption: “Emily Carr at Ts'aa7ahl ‘llnagaay/Chaatl, Haida Gwaii, in 1912, with her Haida guide Clara Russ and ‘chaperone’ Edna Leary. Clara’s husband, William, is taking the photograph."