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Title: Yan Poles
Description: Memorial poles and a frontal pole associated with the House Looking at Its Beak, the Flicker House and the Dark House.
Date: 1932, 1932

Title: South Yan
Description: The poles associated with the first three houses in the row at the south end of the village all still standing long after their house frames have disappeared.
Date: 1932, 1932

Title: Yan Village
Description: South end of the village showing the mortuaries, memorials and frontal poles as hey stand after the house frames have long disappeared.
Date: 1947, 1947

Title: Yan Village
Description: On the left is the whale from base of the frontal pole from the second house in the row at the south end of the village. In the background you can clearly see memorial poles still standing and a house that is still intact.
Date: 1919, 1919

Title: Yan Mortuaries
Description: At the north end of this row was an unusual multiple mortuary supported on three posts. It had an elaborate crest carving of a thunderbird on the front plaque. The only comparable mortuaries are one at Tian and another at Yaku. Beside it is one of many double-mortuaries.
Date: 1897, 1897

Title: Yan Village
Description: In the foreground, on the left, is a corner post as well as memorial and mortuary poles associated with House Looking at its Beak. In the background
Date: 1939, 1939

Title: Yan Mortuaries
Description: A row of double mortuaries and a single mortuary from the south end of Yan village.
Date: 1919, 1919

Title: South Yan
Description: Poles associated with the first three houses in the house row at the south end of the village: the Killer Whale House, an unnamed house, and the House in Which a Grizzly Bear Sits.
Date: ,

Title: Yan Panorama
Description: Looking north from the Killer Whale House at the south end of the village.
Date: 1881, 1881

Title: Centre Yan
Description: Round House and Covered with Cedar Bark House and all of the poles associated with the houses from the centre area of Yan.
Date: 1913, 1913

Title: Yan Memorials
Description: On the left is a memorial pole with five potlatch cylinders at the top on the head of a shaman wearing a crown of grizzly bear claws. At the base is a grizzly bear holding a human figure upside down in its mouth. On the right, a memorial post also erected after 1881 with a watchman at the top wearing a dance hat with nine potlatch cylinders. A
Show moreOn the left is a memorial pole with five potlatch cylinders at the top on the head of a shaman wearing a crown of grizzly bear claws. At the base is a grizzly bear holding a human figure upside down in its mouth. On the right, a memorial post also erected after 1881 with a watchman at the top wearing a dance hat with nine potlatch cylinders. A plain shaft intervened, followed by a bear with extended tongue, and at the base a whale.
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Date: ca. 1901-1913, 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913

Title: Yan Village
Description: Looking north from the centre of the village through the house row. Most of the house frames are either gone or falling apart, but the memorials, mortuaries, frontal poles and double-mortuary are mostly still intact.
Date: ca. 1901-1913, 1901; 1902; 1903; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913

Title: Modern Yan
Description: The contrast of a new pole standing next to a historic pole that, at one time, featured a carving on top of the short post that has mostly decayed.
Date: 2005, 2005

Title: Yan Village
Description: A panorama of the beach at Yan. The remaining poles can be seen along the edge of the forest growth.
Date: 1941, 1941

Title: Pole Remains in Yan
Description: Remains of a pole in the village of Yan. Likely the remains of an old mortuary post with a large figure of a thunderbird and small flanked by small human figures (Upside down human leg).
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Eagle Memorial in Yan
Description: A Memorial with a carving of an eagle on top of a short plain post
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Eagle Memorial in Yan
Description: A Memorial with a carving of an eagle on top of a short plain post
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Eagle Memorial in Yan
Description: Detail of a Memorial with a carving of an eagle on top of a short plain post
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Fallen Pole in Yan
Description: A fallen totem pole in the village of Yan
Date: 1968, 1968

Title: Double Mortuary at Yan
Description: Remains of a double post mortuary, that had two posts carved like eagle legs
Date: 1968, 1968

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