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Title: Star House
Description: This house belonged to Chief Anetlas. The facade of Star House was altered to comply with Victorian taste in architecture including the use of milled siding, decorative trim, and arched windows.

This pole now stands in the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford University.
Date: 1885, 1885

Title: Star House
Description: Star House with its frontal pole and memorial pole. Note that the frontal pole is not directly attached to the frame of the house.
Date: 1890, 1890

Title: Star House Memorial Pole
Description: A memorial pole with a separately carved bear at the top of a stack of five cylinders, and at the base, a grizzly bear.
Date: 1885, 1885

Title: Star House Frontal Pole
Description: The Star House frontal pole after it was moved to the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford University.
Date: ca. 1910, 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915

Title: Bear Memorial
Description: A memorial post consisting of a plain stout post about 3 metres high, surmounted by the large horizontal figure of a bear similar to, but much larger and more elaborately carved (including faces in the nostrils) than the bear in front of Property House. Like the former, this may have been a mortuary figure with a receptacle in the side to receive a
Show moreA memorial post consisting of a plain stout post about 3 metres high, surmounted by the large horizontal figure of a bear similar to, but much larger and more elaborately carved (including faces in the nostrils) than the bear in front of Property House. Like the former, this may have been a mortuary figure with a receptacle in the side to receive a box of ashes or a child’s coffin.
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Date: 1897, 1897

Title: Edenshaw House
Description: Property Woman Broke into the House originally built this house and passed it on to Chief Albert Edward Edenshaw. Here the house is shown with only a frame remaining.
Date: 1901, 1901

Title: Monster House Memorial Poles
Description: Chief Wiah's Monster House and two of the memorial poles which stood out front. This is one of the clearest photographs of the memorial pole on the left, detailing the cumulous cloud figure, often called “Cloud Woman,” with the large recurved beak.
Date: 1890, 1890

Title: Mortuary Pole
Description: An unusual style of single mortuary post that supported a cap of wood in imitation of conical woven hats. A similar mortuary stood at Kayang village nearby. The sealed compartment which held the human remains has been opened and the contents have been removed.
Date: 1948, 1948

Title: Grizzly Bear House Interior Posts
Description: Interior posts of the Grizzly Bear House. Newcombe recorded in 1906 that these were the posts taken by Jacobsen to Berlin. He states that they supported the large round roof beams and faced the door. Here they are shown just before their removal from Masset, arranged for display with a Chilkat blanket, painted hat, and two daggers that probably
Show moreInterior posts of the Grizzly Bear House. Newcombe recorded in 1906 that these were the posts taken by Jacobsen to Berlin. He states that they supported the large round roof beams and faced the door. Here they are shown just before their removal from Masset, arranged for display with a Chilkat blanket, painted hat, and two daggers that probably belonged to Xa’na. The formal display represented in the photograph is typical of that put on at a chief’s funeral. The Chilkat blanket is draped over a box that may be the coffin box of Xa’na.
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Date: 1884, 1884

Title: Monster House Memorial Pole
Description: This memorial was erected in honour of Wiah’s first wife, who was from Tian. This photograph details the base of the pole showing the three small figures whose wisps of hair represent puffs of clouds, and at the base the cumulous cloud, often called “Cloud Woman,” which originally had a large recurved beak.

This pole remained standing until about
Show moreThis memorial was erected in honour of Wiah’s first wife, who was from Tian. This photograph details the base of the pole showing the three small figures whose wisps of hair represent puffs of clouds, and at the base the cumulous cloud, often called “Cloud Woman,” which originally had a large recurved beak.

This pole remained standing until about 1902. Charles Edenshaw made a model of it for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Date: ca. 1910, 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915

Title: Shaman Grave
Description: The figure on the right with two heads is wearing a crown of grizzly bear claws. The figure on the left has a head that is doubly wide. Both figures are holding human figures, one upside-down and the other upright. This depicts the shaman's status of being between worlds.

The platform, which would have held the shaman's body, is shown in a state of
Show moreThe figure on the right with two heads is wearing a crown of grizzly bear claws. The figure on the left has a head that is doubly wide. Both figures are holding human figures, one upside-down and the other upright. This depicts the shaman's status of being between worlds.

The platform, which would have held the shaman's body, is shown in a state of decay between the two figures.
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Date: ca. 1890, 1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899; 1900

Title: Idjao Hill
Description: Double mortuaries with the frontal pole of the Bone House in the background at the top of the hill.
Date: 1888, 1888

Title: Edenshaw House
Description: Women seated at the entrance to the house of Chief Albert Edward Edenshaw. The frontal pole did not particularly reflect the family crests, which were frog, raven, beaver, and eagle. On the left is the one memorial pole of the house.
Date: 1884, 1884

Title: Monster House Memorial Pole
Description: This memorial was erected in honour of Wiah’s first wife, who was from Tian. This photograph details the three small figures whose wisps of hair represent puffs of clouds, and the figure at the base of the pole which is the cumulous cloud, often called “Cloud Woman,” that once had a large recurved beak. Chief Wiah's Monster House is directly behind
Show moreThis memorial was erected in honour of Wiah’s first wife, who was from Tian. This photograph details the three small figures whose wisps of hair represent puffs of clouds, and the figure at the base of the pole which is the cumulous cloud, often called “Cloud Woman,” that once had a large recurved beak. Chief Wiah's Monster House is directly behind.
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Date: ca. 1911, 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915

Title: Grizzly Bear House
Description: Memorial poles of the Grizzly Bear House and Killer Whale House, shown on the right with it’s frontal pole.
Date: ca. 1890, 1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899; 1900

Title: Fort House
Description: The Fort House was located at the base of Idjao Hill at the south end of Masset. Note how the frontal pole is not only not attached to the frame of the house, but has been separated by a picket fence.
Date: ca. 1911, 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915

Title: Frontal Pole
Description: This frontal pole belonged to an unnamed house at the base of Idjao Hill. Newcombe brought the frontal pole to Victoria, BC in 1901 where it stood in Beacon Hill Park until it was eventually blown over. The remaining pieces were sent to the Museum of Anthropology at the Univeristy of British Columbia. The pole has since been re-carved by Jim Hart.
Date: ca. 1910, 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915

Title: Things Roasted On a Fire’s House
Description: The frontal pole shown standing in the Fox Warren Estate in England. It was erected here in 1884. The pole was returned to the National Museum of Canada in 1977. To protect it from the weather it had been coated with a thick layer of tar. Once cleaned and restored it promised to be in very good condition.
Date: 1900, 1900

Title: Double Mortuary
Description: Double eagle leg mortuary that is approximately behind the Monster House.
Date: 1879, 1879

Title: Monster House Interior
Description: The interior of the Monster House showing the house pit, and Chief Wiah's sleeping compartment.
Date: 1898, 1898

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