Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Bear Memorial pole with a bear on top.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Located at the mouth of Knight Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in a crushing blow to potlatching in December 1921.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Shakes marble monument.
Date: 1901
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: In the foreground is a mortuary pole that features a carved head of a bear that is surrounded by a disc representing the sun.
Date: 1919
Name(s): Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1939
Description: A large figure of a bear stands on top of a large post. It is almost identical to one at Kiutsta in which the bear is hollowed out to receive the bones of an infant. The Masset version was perhaps used only as a memorial post. Directly behind the mortuary is a marble memorial for A.E. Edenshaw.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of a bear figure at the top of a mortuary pole.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Mortuary Pole interrupted by a tree. The figure depicts either a bear or beaver..
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial Pole at Old Kasaan. The figure has a Beaver at the base holding a stick, with a smaller bear or beaver figure above the tail. Above the figures are sgil or Potlatch Rings.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial Pole at Old Kasaan. The figure has a Beaver at the base holding a stick, with a smaller bear or beaver figure above the tail. Above the figures are sgil or Potlatch Rings.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Memorial Pole at Old Kasaan. The figure has a Beaver at the base holding a stick, with a smaller bear or beaver figure above the tail. Above the figures are sgil or Potlatch Rings.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Mortuary post that depicts a grizzly bear holding a human figure, a possible variant of the Bear Mother myth.
