OF TELEGRAPH CREEK
Catalogue of works
Everything shown on this page is an example to demonstrate the proposed catalogue. These examples will be replaced with actual Tahltan Museum content at a future date, following cultural review and approval. This page does not state or imply that these works are held by the Tahltan Museum, available for loan, or approved for public display.
Examples only — actual content coming later
All works, images, descriptions, and collection records shown here are illustrative examples, not the Tahltan Museum’s actual catalogue. This page will be updated with actual museum content at a future date, following Tahltan cultural review and approval.
Community review comes first
Descriptions below stay close to the holding institutions’ own records. Attribution, names, access, images, and stories must be reviewed with Tahltan knowledge holders before any public use. Where an institution identifies an attribution as uncertain, that uncertainty is kept visible here.
Knife sheath
Date: 1850–60
Materials: Trade cloth, glass and metal beads, native-tanned skin
The Met records this as a Tahltan knife sheath from British Columbia. The record names the materials and dates the object to 1850–60; it is not on view.
Raven and the Box of Daylight
Culture: Tahltan–Tlingit
Object type: Box
UBC’s Museum of Anthropology identifies this box as made by Dempsey Bob and records its Tahltan–Tlingit cultural designation. The holding institution notes that it is not on display.
Dutch Eagle Hat
Culture: Tahltan
Object type: Hat
UBC’s Museum of Anthropology identifies this as a Tahltan hat by Alano Edzerza. Its record gives the object number and notes that the work is not on display.
Diving Raven tunic
Collection: Royal BC Museum
Record context: Family: Bonds and Belonging
The Royal BC Museum’s learning record describes a Tahltan “diving raven” tunic from Telegraph Creek. It was connected with an archival photograph in the museum’s Family exhibition.
Gaming stick
Date: 1898–1905
Attribution: Indigenous: Dene, Tahltan?
McCord Stewart Museum records this gaming stick as hide, fibre thread, wood, and paint. Its own catalogue uses a question mark after “Tahltan”; this page preserves that provisional attribution rather than presenting it as confirmed.
A model for future records
Each future museum record can hold a title, maker or family attribution, date or date range, materials, place, collection status, an approved description, and a clear cultural-use or sharing decision.
This approach takes inspiration from collection catalogues that keep source data and rights visible, while making room for Tahltan community knowledge to guide the final record.
Share an artifact story for consideration →Private concept only · Source records remain the responsibility of their holding institutions. No reproduction, loan, ownership, cultural access, or public-display rights are implied.