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Photographer: T. P. O. Menzies (Thomas Philip Oxenham Menzies), Non-Indian, 1874-1960
Subject: George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
Clarissa Draney (Mrs. Robert C. (R.C.) Draney/Clarissa (Cassie) May McCabe), Non-Indian, 1867-1954
E. S. Robinson, Non-Indian
Date Created: July 28, 1938
Catalog Number: N36887
Format: Acetate negative
Dimensions: 5 x 7 in.
Collection History: During George Heye's 1938 field trip to British Columbia, he was accompanied at least part of the time by T.P.O (Thomas Philip Oxenham) Menzies, then the curator at the Vancouver City Museum.
Description: George Gustav Heye holding a wooden dish representing a beaver (NMAI catalog number 198964.000), with Clarissa Draney (1867-1954, widow of Robert Draney, a cannery owner at Bella Coola) and Mr. E.S. Robinson (an MAI employee?) balancing a canoe prow carved to represent an eagle (NMAI catalog number 199029.000) on a wooden bench. They are posed outdoors (in a garden?) with wooden clapboard house in background
Place: Vancouver Island; British Columbia; Canada
Site Name: Vancouver Island
Archipelago: Vancouver Island Group
Island Name: Vancouver Island
Culture/People: Nuxalk (Bellacoola),Non-Indian
Persistent URL:http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/item.aspx?irn=330509
Repository:National Museum of the American Indian
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