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Drummers at Witsuwit'en feast
- Date Range
- November 7, 1997
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Photo of two men drumming at a Witsuwit'en feast held to celebrate the return of the Burns Lake Band to the Feast Hall after decades of separation. Phil Fontaine, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, was present to officially welcome the Office of the Witsuwit’en Chiefs into the AFN; th…
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Creator
- Susan Smith
- Fonds No.
- BF5
- Series No.
- S4
- Item No.
- P8712
- Accession No.
- 2020.36
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph; colour
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Date Range
- November 7, 1997
- Custodial History
- Photo was originally taken by Interior News staff for publication in the paper. It was retained by the News until being transferred to the Bulkley Valley Museum, likely in 2007, as part of a large donation of photographs, negatives, and textual records. Item was stored in Room 6 until being found in collections and accessioned in Fall 2020.
- Scope and Content
- Photo of two men drumming at a Witsuwit'en feast held to celebrate the return of the Burns Lake Band to the Feast Hall after decades of separation. Phil Fontaine, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, was present to officially welcome the Office of the Witsuwit’en Chiefs into the AFN; this was the first time that the Assembly had recognized hereditary chiefs rather than the band councils imposed by the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.
- Arrangement
- Item was found in an envelope with other photographs from the same date. All photographs in this series have been removed from original order and arranged in the order in which they were scanned.
- Subject Access
- Wet'suwet'en
- Geographic Access
- Witset, B.C.
- Moricetown, B.C.
- Notes
- See the Interior News, November 12th 1997. Negative available.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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