Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A memorial pole or possibly a carved housepost
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remains of a pole in the village of Yan. Likely the remains of an old mortuary post with a large figure of a thunderbird and small flanked by small human figures (Upside down human leg).
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remains of a pole in the village of Yan. Likely the remains of an old mortuary post with a large figure of a thunderbird and small flanked by small human figures (Upside down human leg).
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remains of a pole in the village of Yan. Likely the remains of an old mortuary post with a large figure of a thunderbird and small flanked by small human figures (Upside down human leg).
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remains of a pole at Yan. Likely a remaining post of two for a traditional shaman mortuary. Two identical posts, depicting the shaman, stood at the front corners of the mortuary.
Date: 1947
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Forest overgrowing the houses and monuments at Cumshewa.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A memorial pole or possibly a carved housepost
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A memorial pole or possibly a carved housepost
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: remains of a monumental at the village of Yan, possibly a mortuary.
Date: 1968 to 1972
Description: The Whole Being Pole.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The Whole Being Pole.
Date: 1972
Description: Hemlock sapwood cakes. In earlier times thimbleberry leaves would have been used to prevent the cake from sticking to the box rather than plastic. These scenes of resource gathering and 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 produced a volume on these collecting and processing practices titled Gathering what the Great Nature provided: food traditions of the Gitksan, by the…
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: George F. MacDonald speaking with Kitselas Band member beside a fiberglass replica of Gaum's interior house post, Whole Being. House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Description: Dog Salmon Pole
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Killer whale grave figure. This is a replica of a carved figure from Old Kasaan. The original carving was on top of a grave house roof in Old Kasaan, but was discarded.
