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Title: K’uuna Village
Description: This view of K’uuna shows how the line of the house row is modified to follow the contour of the shore.
Date: 1901, 1901

Title: K’uuna Village Site
Description: This photograph shows the poles as they are being reclaimed by the vegetation. The two-finned killer whale mortuary in the foreground has a tree growing through the entire lower section of the pole.
Date: 1967, 1967

Title: Side: Eagle Mortuary
Description: The eagle mortuary standing amongst the vegetation. The blunt face would have originally had a beak that was separately carved and then attached to the figure.
Date: 1967, 1967

Title: Detail: Beaver Memorial
Description: This tall memorial features a beaver at the base with small bears in its ears. Above this crest figure is a column with sixteen potlatch cylinders and between the paws of the beaver is a small human figure. In the background, is another beaver memorial, but this pole has fourteen potlatch cylinders.
Date: 1967, 1967

Title: Two-Finned Killer Whale Mortuary
Description: Originally, on the frontal plaque was a carved grizzly bear. Shown here is the two-finned killer whale, with the body making up the length of the pole, and a figure at the top holding on to the tail. Below the head of the whale is the head of another figure that is obscured by vegetation in photographs.
Date: 1947, 1947

Title: Fluted Mortuary Pole
Description: A mortuary pole for the remains of the owner of Grizzly Bear’s Mouth House. The upper section of the post was fluted, and it originally had a frontal plaque featuring a bear holding a copper.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Eagle and Grizzly Bear Mortuaries
Description: On the left, an eagle mortuary from the Alder House. On the right, the grizzly bear mortuary.
Date: 1967, 1967

Title: Fallen Grizzly Bear Mortuary
Description: The grizzly bear mortuary lying on the ground after the lower portion of the pole split apart due to plant growth.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Detail: Fallen Grizzly Bear Mortuary
Description: Detail of the upper figure from the mortuary featuring a grizzly bear eating a boy.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Side: Eagle Mortuary
Description: View of the eagle mortuary from the side. Note the carvings on the wings are still clear, and the blunt face where the separately carved beak has fallen off.
Date: 1967, 1967

Title: Mortuary Poles
Description: A double mortuary, the fluted mortuary and the two-finned killer whale mortuary.
Date: 1947, 1947

Title: House Mother Frontal Pole
Description: This is the top portion of the House Mother frontal pole. Here you can see one of the watchmen, and the grizzly bear with its cub (depicted in human form). The frontal pole of House Raven Found is standing in the background.
Date: 1947, 1947

Title: Fluted Mortuary Pole
Description: A mortuary pole for the remains of the owner of Grizzly Bear’s Mouth House. The upper section of the post was fluted, and it originally had a frontal plaque featuring a bear holding a copper.
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Detail: Two-Finned Killer Whale Mortuary
Description: Detail of the top featuring a figure who is holding on to the tail of the killer whale.
Date: 1972, 1972

Title: Eagle House
Description: The Eagle House stood in front of the house row. Here, the frame of the house remains with the frontal pole. The frontal pole of Peaceful House can be seen standing behind the Eagle House in line with the rest of the house row.

The two mortuary poles on each side of the Eagle House are associated with houses in the row behind Eagle House.
Show moreThe Eagle House stood in front of the house row. Here, the frame of the house remains with the frontal pole. The frontal pole of Peaceful House can be seen standing behind the Eagle House in line with the rest of the house row.

The two mortuary poles on each side of the Eagle House are associated with houses in the row behind Eagle House.
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Date: 1901, 1901

Title: Peaceful House
Description: In the foreground, the frontal pole and standing beaver memorial pole of Peaceful House. The frontal pole is shown no longer attached to a house frame. Directly behind is Standing House with its frontal pole.
Date: ,

Title: Alder House
Description: Alder House and its frontal pole stand between the frames of Waste Food House (left) and the third house in the row from the east end.

The mortuary on the left originally had a plaque painted with a grizzly bear crest. In the middle is an eagle mortuary, and on the right, a mortuary featuring a grizzly bear eating a boy and a whale eating a seal.
Show moreAlder House and its frontal pole stand between the frames of Waste Food House (left) and the third house in the row from the east end.

The mortuary on the left originally had a plaque painted with a grizzly bear crest. In the middle is an eagle mortuary, and on the right, a mortuary featuring a grizzly bear eating a boy and a whale eating a seal. Note that the frontal plaque featuring the head of a grizzly bear is still in place.
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Date: 1924, 1924

Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World