Grizzly Bear House Interior Posts

Interior posts of the Grizzly Bear House. Newcombe recorded in 1906 that these were the posts taken by Johan Adrian Jacobsen, 1853-1947 to Berlin. He states that they supported the large round roof beams and faced the door. Here they are shown just before their removal from Masset, arranged for display with a Chilkat blanket, painted hat, and two daggers that probably belonged to Xa'na. The formal display represented in the photograph is typical of that put on at a chief's funeral. The Chilkat blanket is draped over a box that may be the coffin box of Xa'na.