Date: 2009
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Detail of the base of the pole erected by Chief Gwinuu called The Frog-Hanging. This photograph details the Eagle, which has a bird head, a human body and a crown of grizzly bear claws.
Date: 2008
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Shown here is the Eagle Mawdzeks and then six small frogs hanging down. Then there is the Person-of-the-Doorway-Post who wears a woven cedar-bark headpiece and holds a cedar-bark rope in his hands. At the bottom of the pole is the Beaver and then the Chief-of-Frogs, who is squatting at the bottom of the pole to designate the pole as belonging to the Frog-Raven phratry.
Date: 2008
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: This is a detail of the bottom of the pole, showing the Beaver and then the Chief-of-Frogs, who is squatting at the bottom of the pole to designate the pole as belonging to the Frog-Raven phratry.
Date: 2008
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: This is a detail of the six small frogs hanging down with the head of the Person-of-the-Doorway-Post showing below.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: House post depicting grizzly bear holding an ancestral figure. Other posts from this house were removed in 1956 and are now on display at MOA The posts of the house of Ha'm'cit were carved by a man from Smith Inlet called Si.wit who moved to Xu'mtaspi and married Tom Omhyid's mother. Ha'm'cit died before the house was finished. (Information provided to Prof. Wilson Duff, 1925-1976 by Mungo Martin).
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The carving on this post is badly decayed. Its height and width indicate that it was a house post rather than a totem pole.
Date: 1910 to 1920
Name(s): Barrett, S. A. (Samuel Alfred), 1879-1965
Description: Carved figure with very pronounced facial features and a 3 ringed hat.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Kahl-teen's pole, erected about 1900. The main figure, at the top, is Person-of-the-Glacier.
Date: 1979
Description: The 'Ksan Performance group re-enacting the story of the warrior chief Nehl'xt or 'Nekt at 'Ksan Historical Village. The story takes place at 'Battle Hill© near Gitwangak village. 'Nekt was an aggressive warrior and led many successful raids against neighbouring tribes. He is remembered and celebrated by the Gitxsan people as a powerful and great leader.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Interior house post of House of Gaum named Whole Being. House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Date: 1912
Name(s): Crutis, E. P.
Description: Chief Skow's Sea Monster House with pole in place and sea monster housefront painting still visible. A replica of this pole is now at the Burke Museum, University of Washington. One of the heads of the sisiutl (two headed serpent) atop the neighbouring house is also visible.
Date: 1905 to 1915
Description: This frontal pole belonged to an unnamed house at the base of Idjao Hill. Newcombe brought the frontal pole to Victoria, BC in 1901 where it stood in Beacon Hill Park until it was eventually blown over. The remaining pieces were sent to the Museum of Anthropology at the Univeristy of British Columbia. The pole has since been re-carved by Jim Hart.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: House of the Ancestors at 'Ksan Historical Village, Hazelton, B.C.
Description: Totem pole and house
Date: 1901
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: The frontal pole still standing after the house has fallen down. At the top of this pole sits eagle with three potlatch cylinders on its head, and between its wings a small face with three potlatch cylinders. Next is a cormorant, then a beaver, and at the base is a bear eating a man.
