Running-Backwards Poles

Date
1910
Photographer: Emmons, George Thornton, 1852-1945
Description

Both of these poles were raised by Chief Kliyemlaxe, and they share the name of Running-Backwards. Note that a long slab has been removed on the left pole where a Wolf that was separately carved was once attached.

Subject (Geographic)
Ans'pa yaxw (Kispiox)
Keywords
Tsimshian
Gitxsan
Totem poles
Kispiox
Kispayaks
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
Anspayaxw03
Copyright
Copyright has expired in Canada.
Terms of use
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