Detail: Frontal Pole Base

Date
1878
Photographer: Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901
Description

A detail of the House That Makes a Great Noise (like a deep sounding whistle) frontal pole base. The base figure is a killer whale with a small face in the blowhole and a tall dorsal fin above its head

Physical location
Library and Archives Canada
Subject (Geographic)
Cumshewa Village (B.C.)
Keywords
Haida
Hydah
Queen Charlotte Islands
Totem poles
Haida Gwaii
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
Cumshewa18
Copyright
Copyright has expired in Canada.
Terms of use
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