Date
1881
Personal name
Photographer: Dossetter, Edward
Description
Detail of the base of the Chief's House's memorial pole (with the frontal pole directly behind it with the large beak). At the base of the memorial is a bear holding a boy, likely in reference to the Bear Mother myth. Between the ears of the bear is the face of a hawk.Note the figure wearing the potlatch hat holding up the large beak on the frontal pole directly behind the memorial pole.
Subject (Geographic)
Keywords
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Identifier
Skidegate09
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