Haida Canoe Ceremony, Juneau, Alaska, Photograph Collection, 1977

Collection

Identifier: PCA 135

Staff Only

Dates

1977

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is unrestricted.

Historical

On June 28, 1977 Sealaska Corp. organized a symbolic ceremony in preparation for the dedication of the corporation’s new $6 million office building. A canoe, hand-carved from red cedar by Haida Natives, Clarence Peele, Sr., Clarence Peele, Jr. and Warren Peele, was an 18-foot replica of the 65-foot canoes used at one time by the Pacific Northwest Indians to trade and visit between tribes.

The canoe was accepted by Sealaska President John Borbridge Jr. as a symbol of the Tlingit and Haida “unity and people and purpose.” The ceremony was attended by over 600 local residents and Alaskan Native people from as far away as Seattle.

The canoe is on permanent display in the Sealaska building. Robin Shepard is the photographer. [From: Southeast Alaska Empire, Wed. June 29, 1977]

Extent

127 Photographic Prints : black and white ; (5 contact images of negative strips)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Processing Information

The images are not numbered (Feb. 2005)

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding aid for the Haida Canoe Ceremony, Juneau, Alaska, Photograph Collection, 1977
Status: In Progress
Author: ArchivesSpace finding aid by: Sandy Johnston
Date: 2019 July
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English