Museum of Anthropology Vancouver.

The House board above was carved by Susan Point in 1977 who is Musqueam
Outside the museum there was a Haida House complex which includes the structures that would have been present in a nineteenth century Haida village. The village was constructed in 1962 and includes a large family dwelling and a smaller mortuary house similar to those used traditionally to hold the dead. In front of the houses are are examples of memorial and mortuary poles dating from 1951 Haida artist Bill Reid and Namgis artist Doug Cranmer oversaw the construction of the houses and carved several of the adjacent poles.

Museum of Anthropology Vancouver.

The First three photos are of Bill Reid's sculpture "The Raven and the First Men" It was completed in 1980 and was carved from a giant block of laminated Cedar.The sculture depicts a moment in the ancestral past of the Haida People, when a Raven, a wise and powerful yet mischievous trickster, has just found the first humans in a clam shell on the beach, and is coaxing them out of it.



The Museum contains approximately 35,000 ethnological objects and 200,000 archaeological objects.Not all are from The First Nation People ,there are may Asian artefacts and also some from Africa.



There are 196 First Nation Communities in BC today and in all about 170,000 people.Many live in Reserve communities situated within ancestral territories, whilst others live in Urban areas.
The creation of the Indian reserves was, and continues to be a very controversial issue. Negotiations continue with the BC and Canadian governments as The First Nation Peoples want to take control of their traditional territories