Date: 1915 to 1925
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Detail of the backside of the pole, showing the figure wearing a grizzly-bear hide to represent the armour of Nekt, a powerful warrior chief.
Date: 2000
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Detail of Chief Axgawt at the base of the pole. The figure is wearing rings of red cedar bark on its head and neck, and Nekt's grizzly-bear armour.
Date: 1972
Description: One horned mountain goat mask and costume.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: One of the All Hat exterior house posts of the House of Gaum. House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: These frogs are to represent three Kiksadi women, Tlingit whom belong to the frog clan. The three women cohabitated with Chief Shakes' slaves. The pole is said to be a ridicule pole carved to force payment for the Kiksadi Chief who would not pay for Shakes housing the three women. The Kiksadi Chief had said the women disgraced themselves, by marrying beneath them
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Interior entrance to Chief Shakes' X'átgu Hít (Mudshark House). The house was built in traditional Tlingit style, with the firepit in the middle of the house.
Description: Bone Amulet carved in relief out of bone. Image depicted is of a killer whale.
Description: Bone charm depicting bear with two human figures.
Description: underside of carved shaman charm, killer whale holding humans.
Description: Charm depicting orca with humans, carved from bone.
Description: Charm depicting orca with humans, carved from bone.
Description: Wooden club possibly used for fish rather than warfare. The club is carved in the form of an orca complete with head, dorsal and tail fins. The body has been streamlined into a handle, and face carving is at bludgeoning end of club.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Bone charm carved, polished and inlaid with abalone.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Shamanistic bone charm, carved to resemble a killer whale. Done in typical soul catcher format, albeit only a two-dimensional carving.
Date: 1972
Description: Collecting soapberries near Kispiox. These scenes of resource and food gathering were initiated in order to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers among the Gitxsan. The objective was to create colour images of practices that were partially captured in earlier black and white photographs and in early texts such as those written by Marius Barbeau and William Baynon. The Book Builders of 'Ksan also produced a volume on these collecting and processing practices…
