First Salmon Covered in Down

• Other Authors: G.F. MacDonald Collection
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Tsimshian > Gitxsan > Hazelton > Gitanmaax > Gitksan >; Tsimshian > Gitxsan > Ksan Historical Village > Hazelton > Gitanmaax > Gitksan >; Hazelton; Kitselas; Kitselas Canyon; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-1544/first-salmon-covered-down

Salmon covered in eagle down as part of first salmon ceremony. Shot in accordance with Frans Boas's script of the First Salmon Ceremony among the Gitselasu of the Kitselas Canyon. These scenes of resource gathering were initiated in order to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist...