Date: 1969
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: The Grizzly Bear Mortuary, Eagle Mortuary and Sea Grizzly Mortuary all standing and slowly being reclaimed by the land.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: On the left, a mortuary post depicting a thunderbird with a face between its wings. On the right, a mortuary with an ornately carved post depicting a killer whale with prominent triangular teeth, and a small human figure between its fin and tail. On its head was a small whale with three potlatch cylinders.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: In the foreground is a mortuary post carved with a large grizzly bear holding a frog between its paws, with another frog between its ears. In the background is a killer whale mortuary post. To the left, you can see how close the mortuary poles stood to the beach.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Group of mortuary poles from the north end of the village.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Three mortuary poles. The left has a beaver holding a stick at the base, frog holding bent wood box, and thunderbird holding a salmon. The middle pole has a plain pole with a bear depiction above, and the pole on the right is a bear-like depiction with sgil (potaltch rings) above.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left: Double mortuary pole erected for the remains of a wife of the chief of Skedans, Xanadjat. One of her crests was the dogfish with a large labret. The dogfish crest came from Sitka Alaska, from a story of a woman who began to change into a dogfish while talking to her friends one day. Her nose lengthened and turn inwards towards her face. Right: Mortuary Pole for the remains of a member of Those Born at Skedans, an Eagle family. On the plague was a Beaver holding a stick in its paws, with…
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left: Mortuary pole erected for Gwa.igixa, a name which reffered to the medicinal plant. Gwa.igixa was of the Dijigua Town People, one of the Eagle families who occupied the village. Once above the carved ealge was a plaque that had a painted Eagle design. Right: Mortuary Pole erected for Xaosti, an owner of a house in the village of Skedans. The pole has the figure of a Killer Whale eating a seal at the base, above is a grizzly bear eating a boy. The pole originally had a plague at the head of…
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left: Mortuary pole erected for Gwa.igixa, a name which reffered to the medicinal plant. Gwa.igixa was of the Dijigua Town People, one of the Eagle families who occupied the village. Once above the carved ealge was a plaque that had a painted Eagle design. Right: Mortuary Pole erected for Xaosti, an owner of a house in the village of Skedans. The pole has the figure of a Killer Whale eating a seal at the base, above is a grizzly bear eating a boy. The pole originally had a plague at the head of…
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left: Mortuary Pole for a house owner in the village of Skedans. Earlier photos showed a carved bear holding a copper. The upper half of the pole is fluted. Right: posterior side of a totem pole in Skedans
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left: Mortuary pole erected for Gwa.igixa, a name which reffered to the medicinal plant. Gwa.igixa was of the Dijigua Town People, one of the Eagle families who occupied the village. Once above the carved ealge was a plaque that had a painted Eagle design. Right: Mortuary Pole erected for Xaosti, an owner of a house in the village of Skedans. The pole has the figure of a Killer Whale eating a seal at the base, above is a grizzly bear eating a boy. The pole originally had a plague at the head of…
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left: Mortuary pole erected for Gwa.igixa, a name which reffered to the medicinal plant. Gwa.igixa was of the Dijigua Town People, one of the Eagle families who occupied the village. Once above the carved ealge was a plaque that had a painted Eagle design. Right: Mortuary Pole erected for Xaosti, an owner of a house in the village of Skedans. The pole has the figure of a Killer Whale eating a seal at the base, above is a grizzly bear eating a boy. The pole originally had a plague at the head of…
Date: 1932
Name(s): Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999
Description: Mortuary posts to the west of the house row.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Mortuary posts in SGang Gwaay/Ninstints
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left: Remains of mortuary poles Right: Mortuary post that depicts a grizzly bear holding a human figure, a possible variant of the Bear Mother myth.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left: Remains of mortuary posts Right: Mortuary Post with a carved Grizzly bear with two human faces on the hands
