Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Two bear posts
Date: 1947
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: This memorial column, rectangular in cross section, symbolizing a killer whale dorsal fin, is surmounted by a figure of a chief with a tall hat. Originally a separate carving of a raven holding a copper sat on top of the chief's hat.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of the profile of the eagle that sits on top of a short plain post. This pole is one of the last remaining historic poles standing at Yan.
Date: 1963
Description: Detail of a carving of an eagle on top of a short plain post that is now covered with plant growth.
Date: 1947
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: A memorial pole with a raven at the top (with beak bent down), supported by a plain shaft, with a grizzly bear at the base.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Profile of the horned owl figure from the top of the Strong House frontal pole as it stood at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Date: 1950 to 1955
Name(s): Duff, Wilson, 1925-1976
Description: Side profile: This monument appears to be of a killer whale with a hok hok bird on its back. There is a board wedged between the dorsal fin of the whale and the beak of the bird to help support the weight of the beak. The whale's pectoral fins rise along each side of the bird. A flag pole also appears to be rising from the birds head and may have been used for ceremonial banners.
Date: 1947
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Side profile of the grizzly bear from the base of the frontal pole. In between the bear's paws is a human head wearing potlatch cylinders.
Date: 1947
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Side profile of the grizzly bear from the base of the frontal pole. In between the bear's paws is a human head wearing potlatch cylinders.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of supernatural snag shown in human form at the top of the post.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: On the top was a supernatural snag in human form and a killer whale at the base, both of which have been broken apart by plant growth. Originally the pole featured a front plaque that was plain, with the high dorsal fin of the killer whale projecting above the plaque.
Date: 1890
Name(s): Reford, R.
Description: Property House with its frontal pole. The pole on the left with the horizontal bear on top is a mortuary pole, and the pole on the right is a memorial pole. Note the copper attached to the memorial pole above the head of the standing bear.
Date: 1910 to 1920
Description: First Edenshaw bear mortuary pole with marble memorial to A.E. Edenshaw on right as seen during the McKenna McBride Commission visit (Commissioners in background).
Date: 1890
Name(s): Reford, R.
Description: Property House with frontal pole and bear mortuary pole.
Date: 1901
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: The frontal pole of Property House as it stood after the house frame had fallen. The crests on the frontal pole are three watchmen, an eagle, a story figure of Tsimshian sea-chief/sea anemone, and a killer whale whose head, arms, legs, and pectoral fins are at the base. The body of the killer whale extends above and it has a woman in its mouth that is clutching its tail. This pole was collected by Newcombe for the Smithsonian Institution.The House That Makes a Noise is on the right in the…
