Deteriorating House Post

Date
1967
Photographer: De Menil, Adelaide
Description

House post depicting grizzly bear holding an ancestral figure. Other posts from this house were removed in 1956 and are now on display at MOA The posts of the house of Ha'm'cit were carved by a man from Smith Inlet called Si.wit who moved to Xu'mtaspi and married Tom Omhyid's mother. Ha'm'cit died before the house was finished. (Information provided to Prof. Wilson Duff, 1925-1976 by Mungo Martin).

Subject (Geographic)
Xwamdasbe' (Hope Island)
Keywords
Kwakwaka'wakw
Housepost
monument
Northwest Coast
Native
First Nation
Art
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
de_Menil_Slide_Donation174
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Copyright owner(s)

© Adelaide de Menil.

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