![Colour photograph of dancer in whale mask, green robe, potlatch setting in big house, totem pole in background.](img/intro/nous_dansons-we_dance-320.jpg)
Gilakas’la, Welcome to Living Tradition
![Installation photograph of the Potlatch Gallery showing a row of masks.](img/intro/en_savoir_plus-virtual_tour-320.jpg)
“ It is like a storage box, like a box of treasures the old people used to have...”
![Two weather dancers in white wool and fur regalia, fur headdress and face paint, standing in a forest.](img/intro/caroline_lauren-320.jpg)
“ It is a strict law that bids us dance.” — Chief of the Kwagu’ł, 1886
![Young male dancer in black face paint wearing regalia comprised of a fur cape and thunderbird frontlet with cedar bark trim.](img/intro/j_henderson-320.jpg)
“ Our connection to the past is unbroken.” — Barbara Cranmer
![Elder Agnes Alfred appears at the right of the image. She is looking down at a headdress that she holds in her hands.](img/intro/agnes_alfred-320.jpg)
“ The potlatch was given to us to be our way of expressing joy.” - Agnes Alfred, Alert Bay, 1980
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