More than 60 of the works on display are masks, which are often used as ritual objects in potlatch ceremonies and dances, ...

North American archaeology and prehistory with particular interests in the Northwest Coast ... excavation of a potlatch house at Troup Passage on the B.C. central coast, a large scale three year ...

Bill's father Dan Cranmer organized the the largest potlatch recorded on the northwest coast of British Columbia in December 1921. "People were charged, arrested and tried," Cranmer recounted ...