Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left: A mortuary post depicting a thunderbird with a face in the tail Right: A mortuary post that has an ornate depiction of a Killer Whale with prominent triangular teeth, and small figure between its fin and tail. On the whale's head was a smaller whale with three sgil (potlatch rings). The front plaque was most likely painted.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left: A mortuary post depicting a thunderbird with a face in the tail Right: A mortuary post that has an ornate depiction of a Killer Whale with prominent triangular teeth, and small figure between its fin and tail. On the whale's head was a smaller whale with three sgil (potlatch rings). The front plaque was most likely painted.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Mortuary posts in SGang Gwaay/Ninstints
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Left:A badly burned mortuary post which had the figure of the bear at the base with a long tongue. Right: A burned mortuary post, depicting a part human, part bear figure, possibly representing the Bear Mother myth. The figure had peg-like teeth.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Likely the remnants of mortuary posts
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Likely the remnants of mortuary posts
Date: 1878
Name(s): Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901
Description: Mosquito Hawk House's Frontal Pole:1. (top) six potlatch cylinders2. seven coppers3. Raven, depicted in transitional form, with a beak protruding over a human nose
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: ""Goo-Teekhl"" (Haida), The Mosquito Legend Pole. The Village Watchman sits at the top of this pole. The next figrure is Gooteekhl, who is associated with the creature from which mosquitos came from. Directly below is a bear. The bottom figure is a devilfish or octopus, recognized by the suction cup eyebrows. This is a reproduction recarved in the 1938-41 CCC Project. The following interpretation is based on a Tlingit legend. An unusual child was born to a chief's daughter, the child had a…
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: ""Goo-Teekhl"" (Haida), The Mosquito Legend Pole. The Village Watchman sits at the top of this pole. The next figrure is Gooteekhl, who is associated with the creature from which mosquitos came from. Directly below is a bear. The bottom figure is a devilfish or octopus, recognized by the suction cup eyebrows. This is a reproduction recarved in the 1938-41 CCC Project. The following interpretation is based on a Tlingit legend. An unusual child was born to a chief's daughter, the child had a…
Date: 1972
Description: Gertie Morrison collecting moss. 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. The Book Builders of 'Ksan also produced a volume on these collecting and processing practices titled Gathering what the Great Nature provided: food traditions of the Gitksan, by the people of 'Ksan.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial pole raised in 1878 for the mother of the last Skidgades. On top of the plain pole was a thunderbird and a whale.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial pole raised in 1878 for the mother of the last Skidgades. On top of the plain pole was a thunderbird and a whale.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial pole raised in 1878 for the mother of the last Skidgades. On top of the plain pole was a thunderbird and a whale.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial pole raised in 1878 for the mother of the last Skidgades. On top of the plain pole was a thunderbird and a whale.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial pole raised in 1878 for the mother of the last Skidgades. On top of the plain pole was a thunderbird and a whale.
