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