Oliver Wells photographs of Salish women spinning and weaving
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 81C
name: label: Creator
content: Wells, Oliver, 1907-1970
topic: label: Topic
content: Weaving
label: Topic
content: Spinning
creator: label: Creator
content: Wells, Oliver, 1907-1970
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Oliver N. Wells (1907-1970) was owner of Edenbank Farm in Chilliwack, British Columbia, as well as an amateur historian and ethnologist. He assisted the effort to reestablish traditional Salish weaving techniques and wrote "The Return of the Salish Loom," an article published in the "Beaver" Hudson Bay Magazine in spring 1966.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Color prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1967
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Oliver N. Wells, 1967. A copy of his correspondence is available with the collection.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.81C
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Color prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting Mary Peters (Interior Salish) weaving a tapestry with a two-bar loom and Mrs. William Kelley (Coast Salish) spinning yarn with a spinning wheel. Photographs made in Sardis, Chilliwack, British Columbia.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photographs of Coast Salish arts, collected by Oliver Wells, held in National Anthropological Archives in MS 4764.