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George MacDonald
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25
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1971 (Creation)
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17 pages of textual records
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(March 23, 1925 - August 8, 1976)
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This file contains correspondences between Wilson Duff and George F. MacDonald, chief of the Archaeology Division of the National Museum of Man. MacDonald shares the text of a talk he gave on art and architecture based on archaeological excavations of Haida and Tsimshian villages. The text details MacDonald's ethnohistorical interpretations of social, spiritual, and economic structures. In providing comments and critiques to the text provided by MacDonald, Duff also describes social practices among Gitxsan and Tsimshian communities as a point of comparison.
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Box 1-28
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Cultural sensitivity note: This file discusses the excavation of ancestral remains.
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- Cultural groups » First Nations » Northern Coastal British Columbia and Alaska » X̱aayda (Haida)
- Archaeology
- Architectural elements
- Cultural groups » First Nations » Northern Coastal British Columbia and Alaska » Gitxsan
- Cultural groups » First Nations » Northern Coastal British Columbia and Alaska » Ts'msyen (Tsimshian)
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Description created by Paul Sherfey, July 15, 2026.