Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: House post inside Chief Shakes' X'átgu Hít (Mudshark House)
Date: 1972
Description: Gertie Morrison placing stick in the ground to barbecue a salmon. These scenes of food processing 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: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: House post with unknown design
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Mudshark posts and dance screen at the rear of Chief Shakes' X'átgu Hít (Mudshark House). The carver was Kadjisdu.axtc, One-to-whom-people-will-listen.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: House post depicting grizzly bear holding an ancestral figure. Other posts from this house were removed in 1956 and are now on display at MOA The posts of the house of Ha'm'cit were carved by a man from Smith Inlet called Si.wit who moved to Xu'mtaspi and married Tom Omhyid's mother. Ha'm'cit died before the house was finished. (Information provided to Prof. Wilson Duff, 1925-1976 by Mungo Martin).
Date: 1875 to 1886
Name(s): Brodeck, H. H.
Description: Very old house post depicting a human figure on top of an animal figure, possibly a seal or sea lion.
Date: 1994
Name(s): Herem, Barry
Description: The Black Skin Post (Dukt'ootl Gass) represents the famous Tlingit hero, Dukt'ootl. This section of the post shows the flipper of the sea lion he split with a face carved into it. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan..
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: There appears to be two sets of similar house posts. One set is referred to as ""Sitka Bear Post"", while the other is referred to as ""Mother Eagle house post"". The posts are located at the Sitka Natural History Museum, Alaska.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: House post inside Chief Shakes' X'átgu Hít (Mudshark House) carved by Kadjisdu.axtc. This detail shows the suckers on the octopus and some formline design on a fin.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of house post inside Chief Shakes' X'átgu Hít (Mudshark House). Spaces in the eyes once held abalone inserts.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: House post depicting grizzly bear holding an ancestral figure. Other posts from this house were removed in 1956 and are now on display at MOA The posts of the house of Ha'm'cit were carved by a man from Smith Inlet called Si.wit who moved to Xu'mtaspi and married Tom Omhyid's mother. Ha'm'cit died before the house was finished. (Information provided to Prof. Wilson Duff, 1925-1976 by Mungo Martin).
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of house post inside Chief Shakes' X'átgu Hít (Mudshark House). Slots in the eyes were once inlayed with abalone.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Mortuary post. The empty space in the pole was designed to hold the remains of the deceased
Description: Fibreglass replica of Gaum's interior house post called Whole Being. House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Posterior side of Mortuary Poles in Old Kasaan
