Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: On-it-Sleeps Raven Pole. This pole was erected before 1884. It was re-erected and the raven on top re-carved in 1927 as a part of a National Museum of Canada project. House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Kahl-teen's pole, erected about 1900.
Name(s): Halpin, Marjorie, M., 1937-
Description: Two bone charms carved to resemble ravens.
Description: Closeup of raven dance wand, with human figure carved on underside of raven.
Description: Detail shot of carved dance wand, raven image.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of Raven and the Sun Totem. Pole at Saxman Totem Park near Ketchikan, Alaska. The totems at Saxman were either salvaged or replicated from older poles that had decayed or become overgrown at their original locations in Alaskan Native villages.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Raven Totem Pole, Chief Shake's family totem pole. It dignified a living son, and commemorates one dead. Erected in 1896, The pole stood for 82 years until falling down in a windstorm in 1978.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Kahl-teen's pole, erected about 1900.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Kahl-teen's pole, erected about 1900.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Kahl-teen's pole, erected about 1900.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Shakes' raven totem pole. It dignified a living son, and commemorates one dead one. Erected in 1896, The pole stood for 82 years until falling down in a windstorm in 1978.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Shakes' raven totem pole. It dignified a living son, and commemorates one dead one. Erected in 1896, The pole stood for 82 years until falling down in a windstorm in 1978.
Date: 1994
Name(s): Herem, Barry
Description: Raven is represented on this post by the main (anthropomorphic) figure holding a head, the jade adz, Tsu-hootar with which Raven tricked the King Salmon into coming ashore. Raven stands on the fish, and the small raven issuing from his mouth represents his lies. [This is a pun, since the root for "to lie, deceive" and "raven" are the same: ye't. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.
Date: 1994
Name(s): Herem, Barry
Description: Detail of Raven's human face. Raven post, Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Carved raven figure on top of a pole
