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Title: Detail: Supernatural Snag Memorial
Description: Detail of the base of the memorial. This is a supernatural snag in human form with a high post above depicting potlatch cylinders.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Eagle Mortuary
Description: The remains of a mortuary post with a large eagle that originally had a small marten between its ears and a painted frontal plaque.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Fluted Mortuary
Description: Detail of fluted section of a mortuary pole with a smooth base.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Killer Whale and Thunderbird Mortuary
Description: A mortuary post that featured a plain front plaque and an ornately carved post with a killer whale at the top and a thunderbird below.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Detail of Memorial Pole
Description: Detail of the damage plant growth caused to a memorial pole. The front portion of the pole has fallen apart where the tree has grown.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Mortuary House
Description: A mortuary house with a halibut frontal pole. The frontal pole is interesting for its use of a single crest figure that uses the flat carved slab style, referred to as having been an earlier style of frontal pole.
Date: ca. 1915, 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917; 1918; 1919; 1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930

Title: Supernatural Snag and Killer Whale Mortuary
Description: On the post was a supernatural snag in human form at the top and a killer whale at the base that is being obscured by vegetation. The front plaque of the mortuary was plain, with the high dorsal fin of the killer whale projecting above the plaque.
Date: 1924, 1924

Title: Supernatural Snag and Killer Whale Mortuary
Description: On the post was a supernatural snag in human form at the top, which is being obscured by vegetation, and a killer whale at the base. The mortuary originally featured a frontal plaque with a dorsal fin.
Date: 1947, 1947

Title: Supernatural Snag Memorial
Description: This memorial pole features a high post of potlatch cylinders and at the base of the pole is a supernatural snag. This pole, which was identical to another memorial, is shown here after being split apart by a tree.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Detail: Supernatural Snag Memorial
Description: This memorial pole features a high post of potlatch cylinders and at the base of the pole is a supernatural snag. This pole, which was identical to another memorial, is shown here after being split apart by a tree.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Supernatural Snag Mortuary
Description: On the post was a supernatural snag in human form at the top and a killer whale at the base, both of which have been broken apart by plant growth. Originally the pole featured a front plaque that was plain, with the high dorsal fin of the killer whale projecting above the plaque.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Profile: Supernatural Snag Mortuary
Description: On the top was a supernatural snag in human form and a killer whale at the base, both of which have been broken apart by plant growth. Originally the pole featured a front plaque that was plain, with the high dorsal fin of the killer whale projecting above the plaque.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Killer Whale and Thunderbird Mortuary
Description: A mortuary post that featured a plain front plaque and an ornately carved post with a killer whale at the top and a thunderbird below.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Detail: Killer Whale
Description: Detail of the killer whale, the upper crest figure on this mortuary pole.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Detail: Frontal Pole Base
Description: A detail of the House That Makes a Great Noise (like a deep sounding whistle) frontal pole base. The base figure is a killer whale with a small face in the blowhole and a tall dorsal fin above its head
Date: 1878, 1878

Title: Sky House Poles
Description: Memorial poles, a mortuary pole and the frontal pole associated with the Sky House.
Date: 1901, 1901

Title: Whale House
Description: Whale House, which was abandoned at the death of the house chief. The frontal pole is leaning and is being propped up with a small pole.
Date: 1878, 1878

Title: Profile: Supernatural Snag Face
Description: Detail of supernatural snag shown in human form at the top of the post.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: The Big Eagle pole remains
Description: The body and wing of an Eagle from a Mortuary post from the Village of Cumshewa. The mortuary post is called ""The Big Eagle"" for the remains of of the house chief, ""Steep rock never covered by the tide.""
Date: 1968, 1968

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