Cannibal Giant Gravestone

Date
1966
Photographer: De Menil, Adelaide
Description

The Cannibal Giant (Goo-Teekhl) or Wild Man gravestone is modeled after the Cannibal Giant pole in the Frog House of Klukwan. The Giant was captured and burned by hunters but returned in the form of mosquitos to continue to feed on them. The stone is marble and the design is adapted by a white carver with the engraved name of "Tool-cutch-a- koo-nook." The cannibal is holding a dead Tlingit.

Physical location
Bill Reid Centre at Simon Fraser University
Subject (Geographic)
Klukwan
Keywords
Tlingit
Alaska
Cemetary
Figure
Grave
Memorial
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
Kluk_66-8-40R-30
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Copyright owner(s)

© Adelaide de Menil.

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