Date
1900 to 1915
Personal name
Photographer: Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description
This memorial was erected in honour of Wiah's first wife, who was from Tian. This photograph details the base of the pole showing the three small figures whose wisps of hair represent puffs of clouds, and at the base the cumulous cloud, often called "Cloud Woman," which originally had a large recurved beak.This pole remained standing until about 1902. Charles Edenshaw made a model of it for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Subject (Geographic)
Keywords
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Identifier
Masset41
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