Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: This is an example of a ridicule pole, a type of legend pole erected to notify everyone of an unpaid debt. The top figure is a white man, indicated by the use of curly hair and a beard. This likely represents a trader who cheated the Haida, possibly by stealing beaver pelts. The next figure is holding a shrimp in its mouth, a symbol said to represent a thief. The next figure is a crab, also a symbol of thievery. At the base of the pole is a beaver recognized by the large teeth and cross-hatched…
Description: Bear or possibly woverine furs on Stakes.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Joint of gable on a house point
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Joint of gable on a house point
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: posterior side of the Memorial Pole erected Gadaga of Those Born at Skedans, the first wife of Chief Skedans
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial Pole erected Gadaga of Those Born at Skedans, the first wife of Chief Skedans
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial Pole erected Gadaga of Those Born at Skedans, the first wife of Chief Skedans
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial Pole erected Gadaga of Those Born at Skedans, the first wife of Chief Skedans
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial Pole erected Gadaga of Those Born at Skedans, the first wife of Chief Skedans
Date: 1939
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: The Gambling House frontal pole. At the top of the pole are five potlatch cylinders, and then a grizzly bear with an animal in its mouth. At the base of the pole is a grizzly bear with tongue extended, and then at the very bottom, a beaver
Date: 1895
Description: Twelve men and youths wearing spruce root hats, carved helmets, and masks. One man in Chilkat tunic, and another in fur trim tunic with beaver design. Wood carving of woodworm girls's head in foreground. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.
Date: 1924
Name(s): Shotridge, Louis
Description: Potato gardens, which was a major agricultural activity for the people.
Date: 1920
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Detail of the Half-of-the-Bear, which was carved separately and then attached to the pole.In the background is the Pole-of-Nigemks.
Date: 1968
Name(s): Ochs, Peter
Description: Originally, at the top of the pole was a small-eagle. Detailed here are the five human beings that dangle from the eagles claws in a chain.
Date: 1972
Description: Collecting cedar bark. These scenes of resource gathering were initiated in order to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers among the Gitxsan.
