U'mista Cultural Society

The Potlatch Gallery

Image of a darkened corner in the Potlatch Gallery with a cedar chest visible in the foreground. Corner of the Potlatch Gallery showing a large cedar post and a group of wolf masks. Corner of the Potlatch Gallery showing a group of masks and headdresses from the potlatch collection View from the west end of the Potlatch Gallery showing the north side and entrance wall.

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Celebrating the return of wolf masks to Alert Bay, c. 1980

Black and white photograph of five young women in jeans and t-shirts hold 3 wolf headdresses which they observe with pride.

(L–R) Sherry-Lynn Alfred, Linda Isaac, Andrea Alfred-Smith, Dorothy Barnes, Bernice Isaac

Photograph: Vickie Jensen