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: 1968 to 1972
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
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. In this picture the raven is no longer on top House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Date: 1970
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
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. In this picture the raven is no longer on top. House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Description: Carved door. Raven with the sun in its mouth.
Date: 1960 to 1970
Description: Colour slides collected and donated by Adelaide de Menil. Slide jacket's contain descriptions, which have been copied to the titles. Slides not taken by de Menil read: Schallerer's Photo Shop, 212 Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Frog/Raven Pole, carved by George Benson and John Sam at the Sitka National Historic Park. This Haida crest pole displays the raven and frog. Recent research indicates that the original pole was donated to the people of Alaska by Edward Scott of the Kaigani Haida village of Klinkwan on Prince of Wales Island. This replica was carved in the early 1940s by the CCC carvers.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Frog/Raven Pole, carved by George Benson and John Sam. This Haida crest pole displays the raven and frog. Recent research indicates that the original pole was donated to the people of Alaska by Edward Scott of the Kaigani Haida village of Klinkwan on Prince of Wales Island. This replica was carved in the early 1940s by the CCC carvers.
Date: 1881
Name(s): Dossetter, Edward
Description: Detail of the third crest from the Raven's House's frontal pole showing the dorsal fin of the Dogfish, the tail of which emerges from a man's face.
Date: 1994
Name(s): Herem, Barry
Description: Ear detail from Raven post. The distinct style of the carved ear is a signature of the artist, Kadjisdu.axtc. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.
Date: 1994
Name(s): Herem, Barry
Description: The small raven issuing from the mouth of the human raven 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: 1952
Name(s): R. Carter, R.
Description: Close up of interior house poles. This is a re-creation of the man and woman supported by grizzly bears that stood in the entryway to Chief Herbert (Copper) Johnson's House. There is a double sea lion lintel on top. This picture was taken inside Big House.
Date: 2003
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Re-carving of Tsonoqwa figure by Bill Holm, 1943-2009. Located at the Burke Museum, University of Seattle Washington.
Date: 1952
Name(s): R. Carter, R.
Description: Re-creation of interior poles and lintel located at Big House. Original posts were at the back wall of Chief Herbert Johnson's House.
Date: 1980
Name(s): Herem, Barry
Description: Re-creation of the rear interior of Chief Skow's Raven House using the original poles. These posts are now housed at the Seattle Art Museum. The posts were carved by Arthur Shaughnessy
