The item is a compilation video. It contains excerpts selected from ethnographic films showing First Peoples of the British Columbia coast, 1910-1930, including films produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company (1910), Edward W. Curtis (1914), Pathescope of Canada (1919), Harlan I. Smith (1928-1929), Marius Barbeau and Associated Screen News (1927), and Franz Boas (1930).