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Orange garland
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact91277
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV021.20.1
- Description
- The garland consist of several hundred small pieces of orange fabric in different patterns and shades. They are tied around the base, a thin white rope.
- Object History
- These items were collected as part of the Museum's response to the news of 215 unmarked children's graves found at the Kamloops Residential School in June 2021. These items came from engagement activities the public were invited to take part in for several weeks and consider the impact of the discovery in their own lives.
- This garland was built by members of the public tying an orange piece of fabric to a string. These garlands lined the Cedar Grove in the Village.
- There were a number of other elements to the commemorative display at the Museum. At the Church, there was a display of children's shoes and poetry. Visitors were invited to reflect and write a message to the children, the families or anyone connected to this tragic finding. Visitors were invited to write a message on an orange index card.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Ceremonial Artifacts
- Object Term
- Garland
- Colour
- Orange
- Measurements
- height: 362 cm width: 10 cm depth: 1cm
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
Images
painting
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact85825
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV016.14.1
- Description
- Painting by Indigenous artist, Roy Hanuse titled "Thunderbird".
- This West Coast First Nations style painting was done on a manilla card stock folder and mounted on a black mat board. Painting consists of an underdrawing done in graphite and painted with red, black, green, blue and yellow gouache or tempera paint with some portions painted in a blue glossy paint.
- Handwritten title above painting reads "THUNDERBIRD"; painting is signed by the artist "ROY HANUSE".
- Object History
- Drawings were created in the early 1970s by Roy James Hanuse who was a Kwakwaka'wakw artist known for working in the traditional Kwakwaka'wakw style. Roy was born in 1943 in Bella Bella and lived at Rivers Inlet (Owikeno), British Columbia. Largely self-taught, Roy became interested in his cultural heritage while attending school in Alert Bay in the 1950s. Roy began painting in 1966 and wood carving in 1968. Some highlights of his art career included selling four paintings to the University of British Columbia which were later published in Audrey Hawthorn's "Kwakiutl Art Book" (1979) and carving a 12-foot totem for the Denver Art Museum (1972) and two totem poles that he carved for the Montreal Olympics (1976). Roy James Hanuse died in 2007.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Art
- Object Term
- Painting
- Colour
- Black
- Blue
- Green
- Red
- Yellow
- Measurements
- Overall measurements: wth 39 cm by ht 45 cm
- Maker
- Roy James Hanuse
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- School/Style
- Coast Salish
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
Images
painting
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact85826
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV016.14.2
- Description
- Painting by Indigenous artist, Roy Hanuse titled "Killer Whale"
- This West Coast First Nations style painting was done on a manilla card stock file folder and mounted on a black mat board. Painting consists of an underdrawing done in graphite and painted with red, black and green gouache or tempera paint.
- Handwritten title above painting reads "KILLER WHALE"; painting is signed by the artist "ROY HANUSE".
- Object History
- Drawings were created in the early 1970s by Roy James Hanuse who was a Kwakwaka'wakw artist known for working in the traditional Kwakwaka'wakw style. Roy was born in 1943 in Bella Bella and lived at Rivers Inlet (Owikeno), British Columbia. Largely self-taught, Roy became interested in his cultural heritage while attending school in Alert Bay in the 1950s. Roy began painting in 1966 and wood carving in 1968. Some highlights of his art career included selling four paintings to the University of British Columbia which were later published in Audrey Hawthorn's "Kwakiutl Art Book" (1979) and carving a 12-foot totem for the Denver Art Museum (1972) and two totem poles that he carved for the Montreal Olympics (1976). Roy James Hanuse died in 2007.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Art
- Object Term
- Painting
- Colour
- Black
- Green
- Red
- Measurements
- Overall measurements: wth 42.5 cm by ht 29.3 cm
- Maker
- Roy James Hanuse
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Site/City Made
- Burnaby
- School/Style
- Coast Salish
- Culture
- Kwakwaka'wakw
Images
basket
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact84019
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV014.9.1
- Description
- This basket is woven using the wrapped twining method and is made of swamp grass. The designs were made using aniline dyes and are badly faded; original colours still visible on the inside of lid and basket. The weave on this basket is very finely done. The basket and lid are decorated with bird motifs. Originally birds were yellow on a purple background. The lid has a drop edge that fits over a lip around the top edge of the basket. It is decorated in concentric circles with a dark spot in the centre. The spot includes black as well as the wine colour. The outside is faded to a light brown colour. Nuu-chah-nulth
- Object History
- The basket was acquired in Victoria in the 1930s before the family moved to Vancouver.
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Culture
- Nuu-Chah-Nulth
Images
Documents
basket
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact84020
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV014.9.2
- Description
- Basket with red cedar bark base and warps and swamp grass wefts. The base is done in checker weave, while the walls and lid are done using wrapped twining. The base of the basket is secured with two strand twining and then the warps were split and smaller rows of two strand twining follow. The edge of the base is distinguished by one row of three strand twining, which creates a noticeable break in the pattern, before the wrapped twining begins for the walls. Designs, consisting of horizontal stripes, were made using analine dyes, which are extremely light sensitive. Colours are preserved on inside of basket, where light exposure has been much lower. Originally red and black stripes. Nuu-chah-nulth
- Object History
- The basket was acquired in Victoria in the 1930s before the family moved to Vancouver.
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Culture
- Nuu-Chah-Nulth
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Documents
carrying basket
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact80210
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV009.1.1
- Description
- Rectangular coiled cedar root basket with cedar slat foundation and walls that flare slightly towards rim. Decorated in beaded designs of cattail grass and black dyed cherry bark. Darker elements arranged in a butterfly design. Butterflies are said to represent everlasting life by Stó:lō and Nlaka’pamux basket makers. Overcast handles sewn to basket with leather ties. One has been repaired with string. Finished with a braided rim. Triangular shaped stitches attach base to walls of basket. Interior Salish: Stl’atl’imx?
- Object History
- Basket, ca. 1895-1910, from the collection of the L. Claude Hill family, who owned the property that became the Burnaby Village Museum. According to the Hill family, L. Claude's wife Anne Sarah Hill (nee Kendrick) traded blankets for baskets, although it is not known if this particular basket was obtained in this manner. Indigenous people travelled the trail that crossed Deer Lake Brook (Douglas Road / Canada Way).
- Measurements
- Measurements: width 24 cm and length 44 cm and depth 18 cm. All measured from top edge to outside.
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- School/Style
- Coast Salish
- Culture
- Stl’atl’imx
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work basket
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact80211
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV009.1.2
- Description
- Oval shaped coiled cedar root basket with cedar slat foundation. Overcast rim with remnants of a loopwork border. Decorated with vertical stripes of imbricated designs in canary grass and black dyed cherry bark. Cherry bark can be distinguished by the small eyes in the surface of the bark. If the basket maker is skilled the bark has a shiny appearance, if it has not been scraped properly it has a greyish tinge. Canary grass is differentiated from cattail and bear grass by its shiny appearance according to a Stó:lō/Stl’atl’imx elder and basket maker from Mount Currie, who was married into Upper Sḵwx̱wú7mesh.
- Object History
- Basket, ca. 1895-1910, from the collection of the L. Claude Hill family, who owned the property that became the Burnaby Village Museum. According to the Hill family, L. Claude's wife Anne Sarah Hill (nee Kendrick) traded blankets for baskets, although it is not known if this particular basket was obtained in this manner. Indigenous people travelled the trail that crossed Deer Lake Brook (Douglas Road / Canada Way).
- Measurements
- Measurements: width 31.5 cm and length 51.5 cm and depth 19.5 cm all measured from top edge to outside of basket, not including trim.
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- School/Style
- Coast Salish
- Culture
- First Nations
Images
Documents
Mountain Goat Horn Spoon
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact30018
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV973.73.177
- Description
- Horn spoon with fine carving on the narrow handle. Material is very dark.
- Object History
- Along the Northwest Coast, in general, undecorated spoons of wood and horn were used in everyday life, while more elaborately carved versions were used on special occasions. Horn spoons were often passed down in families as heirlooms, such spoons are generally darker in colour than those of recent manufacture. The bowls of these spoons are too large to place in the mouth, so food is sipped from the sides or the end.
- The bowl of the mountain goat horn spoon is made from the larger part of the horn, at the base. The handle is made from the tip. It is straightened out by steaming in a wooden mould and then scored out inside as part of the shaping process
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- School/Style
- Coast Salish
- Culture
- Haida
Images
Documents
booklet
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact19156
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV977.17.5
- Description
- "Pass Canada!"; bifold binding with three staples; 12 pages; second edition 1929. "Cover reads: "Pass Canada! / TO Nations as well as to individuals comes at / some challenging moment the mandate to / fulfil their mission. To us it seems that Canada / stands at the Open Door of Opportunity.../ ....The world calls to her for bread. ? Her's is the hour ...Let her rise up in / all the magnificent power of her natural re- /sources and lead the nations of the world along the paths of peace / Time's Sentry cries : "PASS CANADA! / A Short series of suggestions on the / way out of the present problems / of unemployment of men / and land / By Mrs. Jack Hawkshaw (First Edition Copyrighted 1922)".
- Object History
- From the collection of Mabel Edith Honor (McClean) Hawkshaw author and publisher of the "Burnaby Post" (1922-1937). She wrote articles for city dailies under the pen name of Percy Egerton Sterling.
- Category
- 08. Communication Artifacts
- Classification
- Documentary Artifacts - - Literary Works
- Object Term
- Serial
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Title
- Pass Canada!
- Publication Date
- 1929
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Documents
adze blade
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact44868
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV002.57.19
- Description
- Nephrite adze blade; chipped on one end; rectangular shaped.
- Object History
- The donor inherited this artifact from his mother, Katherine Maude (Kitty) Peers, who inherited them from her father, Louis Claude Hill. The artifacts were found on his farm, Brookfield Farm, at Douglas Road and Sperling Avenue (now site of Burnaby Village Museum).
- Nephrite is found in the Fraser Canyon
- Culture Phase: Possibly Locarno Beach phase (3520-2200 Before Present) or Marpole (400BC - 400AD)
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
Images
Documents
adze blade
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact44870
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV002.57.21
- Description
- Chisel, adze or axe blade made of serpentine; black; ends broken off; tapered rectangle shape.
- Object History
- The donor inherited this artifact from his mother, Katherine Maude (Kitty) Peers, who inherited them from her father, Louis Claude Hill. The artifacts were found on his farm, Brookfield Farm, at Douglas Road and Sperling Avenue (now site of Burnaby Village Museum).
- Culture Phase: Locarno Beach (3520-2200 Before Present) or Marpole (400BC - 400AD)
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
Images
Documents
adze blade
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact44872
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV002.57.23
- Description
- Chisel, adze or axe blade made of serpentine; small
- Object History
- The donor inherited this artifact from his mother, Katherine Maude (Kitty) Peers, who inherited them from her father, Louis Claude Hill. The artifacts were found on his farm, Brookfield Farm, at Douglas Road and Sperling Avenue (now site of Burnaby Village Museum).
- Culture Phase: Locarno Beach (3520-2200 Before Present) or Marpole (400BC - 400AD)
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
Images
Documents
adze blade
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact44873
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV002.57.24
- Description
- Nephrite adze blade; small
- Object History
- The donor inherited this artifact from his mother, Katherine Maude (Kitty) Peers, who inherited them from her father, Louis Claude Hill. The artifacts were found on his farm, Brookfield Farm, at Douglas Road and Sperling Avenue (now site of Burnaby Village Museum).
- Nephrite is found in the Fraser Canyon
- Culture Phase: Locarno Beach (3520-2200 Before Present) or Marpole (400BC - 400AD)
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
Images
Documents
adze blade
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact44874
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV002.57.25
- Description
- Adze blade; small; possibly nephrite.
- Object History
- The donor inherited this artifact from his mother, Katherine Maude (Kitty) Peers, who inherited them from her father, Louis Claude Hill. The artifacts were found on his farm, Brookfield Farm, at Douglas Road and Sperling Avenue (now site of Burnaby Village Museum).
- Nephrite is found in the Fraser Canyon
- Culture Phase: Locarno Beach (3520-2200 Before Present) or Marpole (400BC - 400AD)
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
Images
Documents
adze blade
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact44876
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV002.57.27
- Description
- Nephrite adze blade; rectangular; chipped on one side; slightly grooved on longer edges.
- Object History
- The donor inherited this artifact from his mother, Katherine Maude (Kitty) Peers, who inherited them from her father, Louis Claude Hill. The artifacts were found on his farm, Brookfield Farm, at Douglas Road and Sperling Avenue (now site of Burnaby Village Museum).
- Nephrite is found in the Fraser Canyon
- Marpole Culture (400BC - 400AD) or Gulf of Georgia Culture (400 AD – 1800); essentially these archaeological materials date to the last 2400 years.
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Burnaby Lake (Historic Neighbourhood)
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Documents
basket
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact17681
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV978.2.13
- Description
- Nut-shaped, coiled cedar root basket with cedar root foundation and watch-spring base and lid construction. Hinged lid is attached with leather ties. Covered in beading, where in the decorative elements are laid flat on surface, rather than folded into cedar root stitches as is done with imbrication. Designs are in red and black dyed cherry bark. Interior Salish: Nlaka’pamux
- Object History
- Nut-shaped baskets are identified as one of the oldest types by Haeberlin and Teit (1928: 202-3). They were used for storing berries and were also common work baskets for women, used to hold small tools – awls, thread, shells, trinkets and other odds and ends (202).
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Culture
- Nlaka'pamux
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Documents
basket
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact27529
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV974.119.3
- Description
- Rectangular coiled cedar root basket with cedar slat foundation, lid has parallel slat construction and is covered with beaded designs edged by imbrication in canary grass. Basket has a flat lid that is hinged to body with leather ties. A mistake was made in how the design was applied to one end of this basket. This is not common as many weavers would correct this mistake. Completely imbricated walls, beaded design on lid. Coast Salish: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh?
- Object History
- The donor reported that the baskets were traded in the early 1920s for clothes by the donor's mother, who lived in North Vancouver. Her mother told her the "Capilano Indians" used to go door to door with their baskets in North Vancouver.
- Diamonds are considered a star pattern and are common to Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Nlaka’pamux basketry. The main design resembles a ladder or fence and is uncommon.
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- Culture
- Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
Images
Documents
basket
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact30051
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV973.79.1
- Description
- Rectangular coiled cedar root basket with cedar slat foundation. Parallel slat base and lid. Walls of basket flare slightly towards the rim. Basket has a conoid lid – one that fits over top of a flange on the rim of the basket. Rim is inset. Sets of triangular shaped stitches attach base to walls. Base of basket is protected by a foot, one slat high. Grass used for imbricated designs has a flat appearance typical of cattail grass. Black dyed and red cherry bark used for other design elements. Handles missing.
- Object History
- Design variant is uncommon. This may be a zoomorphic design possibly representing an animal head or flying bird.
- Country Made
- Canada
- Province Made
- British Columbia
- School/Style
- Coast Salish
Images
Documents
basket
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact50308
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV006.24.5
- Description
- The basket is round with a lid and has a geometric design in black. Made using the coiled method.
- Object History
- Resembles California and Southwestern style baskets made of willow, dye and grass.
- Country Made
- United States of America
- Province Made
- California
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Documents
basket lid
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact50309
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV006.24.6
- Description
- The basket is round with a lid and has a geometric design in black. Made using the coiled method.
- Object History
- Resembles California and Southwestern style baskets made of willow, dye and grass.