Color pencil sketch of Helitsuk (Bella Bella) mask., This mask represents but one owl face. The beak divided and spread for decoration purposes., Funding provided by: Getty Foundation
Speck title: "Map of Northeastern United States and Canada Showing Family Hunting Territories and Boundaries of Bands and Tribes as far as the Survey has been carried." Signed, "Frank G Speck Dept. of Anthropology". Tribes included on map: Micmac, Montagnais, Penobscot, Algonquin, Ojibwe, Tête de Boule (Atikamekw), Mistassini (Cree), and Iroquois. Handwritten notes on map: "Lines overlaid in green are meant to be deleated [sic]. See new verision of this map which also contains some versions not shown here." "Solid black bounds denote definite land limits. Red bounds denote family tracts.", Base map: An unidentified printed map of northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada. Cropped. No date. [Annotated map was formerly grouped with Northwest Coast material of J.A. Teit.]
Printed map later hand-annotated by Franz Boas. "Southern Part of Hecate Strait" map published by the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office, 26th edition, 1918. Hand annotations made by Franz Boas, most likely in or near 1923, when he visited Rivers Inlet. Earlier cataloging of this map incorrectly titled it as a "Linguistic map." Boas's hand annotations in red pen reflect his attempts to understand the territories and associated group names of indigenous peoples of the area. Most of the names he notes are "bands" or nations associated with larger cultural groups, including Tsimshian, Heiltsuk ("Bella Bella"), Nuxalk ("Bella Coola"), Wuikiunuxv ("Ooweekeno"), and Kwakwaka'wakw (specifically Gwa'sala). The map also includes many indigenous place names in red pen or often faint pencil. Left portion of map extending into the Pacific appears to have been torn off., Item AN1
Map of southern Part of Hecate Strait, British Columbia coast, based upon hand-annotations made by Franz Boas to a printed map of the same area. This original map is located in this same collection., Item AN1
