Dzonoqwa House Post

Date
1905
Photographer: Newcombe, C. F.‏ (Charles Frederick),‏ ‎1851-1924
Description

A Dzonoqwa house post from the Gwa'sala winter village T'akus. Bought from a chief at the village of T'akus by an English collector (C. F.‏ (Charles Frederick) Newcombe,‏ ‎1851-1924), it was sold in 1905 for . In 1912 Dzonoqwa was exhibited at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, then traded to a New York antique dealer. In 1942, Dzonoqwa was sold to German artist Max Ernst, the founder of Surrealism, who in 1975 donated it to the Musée de l'Homme in Paris where it is today exhibited.

Physical location
Royal British Columbia Museum PN 686
Subject (Geographic)
T'akus
Keywords
Gwasala
Gwasila
Smith Inlet
Takush
Tsonoqua
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
GM204
Copyright
Copyright has expired in Canada.
Terms of use
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