Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of Chief Skedan's mortuary plaque. Mortuary poles, particularily Haida mortuary poles, had a cavity in the top which held a burial box inside. In order to accommodate the box, the cavity was generally cut into the wide end of the pole with the tapering end set into the ground. The box was hidden from view by a frontal board, painted and/or carved with a lineage crest, placed across the front. The shape and design of this board gave the appearance of a large chest.
Date: 1947
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Plenty of Tliman Hides in This House frontal pole. The crests visible here are an eagle, a cormorant and a grizzly bear at the base. Not visible in this photograph are the three watchmen at the top of the pole.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of a Bill Reid pole at the Haida Village at the Museum of Anthropology. At the centre of the complex are two Haida houses and six poles created between 1960 and 1962 by the late Haida artist Bill Reid and 'Namgis artist Doug Cranmer. The two cedar-plank houses are of great historical significance, and were likely the first traditional-style Haida dwellings to be built in the 20th century. 66-8-
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Fireweed in the foreground and totem poles at Totem Bight, Alaska. The totems at Totem Bight were either salvaged or replicated from older poles that had decayed or become overgrown at their original locations in Alaskan Native villages. 66-9-
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Base of a totem pole with bear holding a human figure
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Human figure with double blackfish hat. The hat or helmet, which can't be seen in this image, symbolizes a helmet won from the Tsimshians at the Battle of the Stikine.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Older gentleman and young carver working on a totem pole.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of a Bill Reid pole at the Haida Village at the Museum of Anthropology. At the centre of the complex are two Haida houses and six poles created between 1960 and 1962 by the late Haida artist Bill Reid and 'Namgis artist Doug Cranmer. The two cedar-plank houses are of great historical significance, and were likely the first traditional-style Haida dwellings to be built in the 20th century. 66-8-
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of a Bill Reid pole at the Haida Village at the Museum of Anthropology. At the centre of the complex are two Haida houses and six poles created between 1960 and 1962 by the late Haida artist Bill Reid and 'Namgis artist Doug Cranmer. The two cedar-plank houses are of great historical significance, and were likely the first traditional-style Haida dwellings to be built in the 20th century. 67-7-
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remains of a totme pole or house post
Date: 1975
Name(s): Inglis, Richard
Description: Detail of the top of the pole depicting the wolf, a zig-zag pattern, Running-Backwards, and a human.
Date: 1926
Name(s): Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1939
Description: Detail of the Ribbed-Bear. Note that the bear's head is backwards.
Date: 1924
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: At the top is the Prince-of-Cormorants. Down the pole are marks representing the ribs of the bear, and at the base of the pole is the Ribbed-Bear.
Date: 1985 to 1995
Description: Detail of the Mountain Fern crest.
Date: 1967 to 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of the second White-Owl on the pole. This White-Owl has a kidnapped child in between its wings.
