Thunderbird and Whale Memorial

Date
1968
Photographer: De Menil, Adelaide
Description

This memorial, erected after 1878, was for the mother of the last Skitgades. On the top of the plain pole were a thunderbird and a whale. This is the only monument seen on approaching Tanu village in the 1960's.

Physical location
Bill Reid Centre at Simon Fraser University
Subject (Geographic)
Tanu
Keywords
Haida
Hydah
Queen Charlotte Islands
Tanu
Haida Gwaii
Klue
Kloo
Klew
Clew
Cloo
Genre
Photographs
Type of resource
Still Image
Part of
George and Joanne MacDonald Northwest Coast Image Archive
Identifier
Tanu38
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Copyright owner(s)

© Adelaide de Menil.

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