Chief Wife's Mortuary Pole

Date
1967
Photographer: De Menil, Adelaide
Description

Double mortuary pole erected for the remains of a wife of the chief of Skedans, Xanadjat. One of her crests was the dogfish with a large labret. The dogfish crest came from Sitka Alaska, from a story of a woman who began to change into a dogfish while talking to her friends one day. Her nose lengthened and turn inwards towards her face.

Subject (Geographic)
Skedans
Keywords
Haida
Alaska
Dogfish Gwaii Haanas
Haida Gwaii
Kuuna Labret Mortuary Pole
Mortuary Post
Totem Pole
Xaayda
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
Menil_HG_0838.jpg
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Copyright owner(s)

© Adelaide de Menil.

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