Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A mortuary pole raised for the chief of Skedan's niece, who was of the same family. The plaque had the head of the mountain goat, and a grizzly bear below, which was holding a small killer whale.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remaining house pit in the village of Tian. The corner posts and roof timbers are relatively well preserved
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remains of a monumental in the village of Tian, possibly a mortuary pole
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: One of two totem poles from Metlakatla that was brought to the Sitka Museum in 1888 when a group of young men from Father Duncan's Christian community came to the Sitka Industrial Training School. They were about to burn the poles when Sheldon Jackson arrived to bring the young men to Sitka and asked them to spare the poles and bring them to the museum. Note from unidentified source: In Sheldon Jackson Museum
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of the carved and painted formline panels. The elaborate panels are a mix of human-like figures and water based figures. The panels likely tell the legend of the Strong Man or the Lazy Son in Law. These stories are often illustrated by Gonakadet and Duk-toohl.
Date: 1980 to 1985
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Bill Reid Pole raised at Skidegate Band Office in 1978
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The middle figure is human-like with a ring around it's head. The base figure has a bird's body and a large human face with a labrette in the bottom lip. The reaminder of the pole is blank with a seated or crouching figure at the top wearing a top hat. The figure on top appears to have hollow eyes carved through to the back of the pole. It is not the same pole as the Proud Raven (Lincoln) Pole.
Date: 1992
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bullhead secition of Nisga'a pole at the Edenburough Museum. The label reads: ""Totem Pole Red cedar carved in about 1855 by Oyea Tait, Nishga group of the Tsimshian people, Angyada village, British Columbia, Canada 1930.291 The pole was carved in memory of a Nishga chief, Tsawit. It is 11.3 meters (37 feet) high and originally stood in front of the house of Tsawit's relatives in Angyada village on the Nass River. In 1929 the pole was purchased from its owner by the Royal Scottish Museum. The…
Date: 1980 to 1985
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Bill Reid Pole raised at Skidegate Band Office in 1978
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of the middle section on a weathered totem pole. The figure resembles that of a human figure, with a circle around his head. The base figure has a large human face with a large labrette in the bottom lip. The reaminder of the pole is blank with a seated or crouching figure wearing a top hat at the top. The figure on top appears to have hollow eyes carved through to the back of the pole. It is not the same pole as the Proud Raven (Lincoln) Pole
Date: 1909
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: Interior house posts. Bears with waving arms at the base and huxwhukw birds on top. From left to right: Emma, James Sewid's mother, Henery Bell, his uncle, and James Sewid's father. The infant at the far left is Emma's youngest sister.
Date: 1909
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: Interior house posts. Bears with waving arms at the base and huxwhukw birds on top.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Two wolf posts and a carved monument in the shape of a human or ancestral figure. Another house post still stands in the background. Located at the mouth of Knight Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in a crushing blow to potlatching in December 1921.
Description: Miniature mask from helmet depicting a humanoid, and a beaver crest.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Miniature doll accessories of shamanistic artifacts. Artists often made miniature kits for the tourist trade.
