Date: 1960 to 1970
Description: Colour slides collected and donated by Adelaide de Menil. Slide jacket's contain numbers and some descriptions, which have been copied to the titles. all slides read: Schallerer's Photo Shop, 212 Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska. Trader Legend Pole This is an example of a ridicule pole, a type of legend pole erected to notify everyone of an unpaid debt. The top figure is a white man, indicated by the use of curly hair and a beard. This likely represents a trader who cheated the Haida, possibly…
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: There appears to be two sets of similar house posts. One set is referred to as ""Sitka Bear Post"", while the other is referred to as ""Mother Eagle house post"". The posts are located at the Sitka Natural History Museum, Alaska.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Sitka Musuem display
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: There appears to be two sets of similar house posts. One set is referred to as ""Sitka Bear Post"", while the other is referred to as ""Mother Eagle house post"". The posts are located at the Sitka Natural History Museum, Alaska.
Date: 1960 to 1970
Description: Colour slides collected and donated by Adelaide de Menil. Slide jacket's contain numbers and some descriptions, which have been copied to the titles. all slides read: Schallerer's Photo Shop, 212 Front Street, Ketchikan, Alaska.
Date: 1924
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: One of three poles raised by Chief Malii.This superb pole has a large square doorway carved through the base, leaving little wood to support the weight of the pole in a wind storm. It is seen here with a prop to hold it up, but eventually it collapsed and rotted away.
Date: 1924
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: This detail is of Skawah, who is an ancestress of the clan. She is inside the moon, and is holding an earthquake charm in her hand.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: This is a replica of Chief Skedans' Mortuary Pole form the 1870s. It was carved by Haida artist Bill Reid in 1964.In the early 1920s, the construction of an Indian village was proposed for the area near Lumberman©s Arch in Stanley Park. The site was chosen because it was located on a massive shell midden, or cultural mound that was the result of many years of Coast Salish habitation. This large deposit of calcified shells covered an area 8 feet deep and spanning several acres. The original…
Date: 2008
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Kitselas Canyon from observation deck.
Date: 1878
Name(s): Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901
Description: A drawing of the Gitladzawk fortress site and village.
Date: 1974
Name(s): Foster, H.
Description: Model of Skidegate, looking south through the rows of houses and poles.
Date: 1881
Name(s): Dossetter, Edward
Description: This shows the section of the village south of Chief Skidegate's house (Dug-Out House). This is the beginning of the front row of houses in the village. In the foreground of the photograph, a woman is seated inside of a canoe that is on the shore.
Date: 1881
Name(s): Dossetter, Edward
Description: This shows the section of the village south of Chief Skidegate's house (Dug-Out House). This is the beginning of the front row of houses in the village.
Date: 1878
Name(s): Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901
Description: Full view of all of the houses at Skidegate in 1878. This is the first photo of the village showing the rows of houses and poles as well as the canoes lining the shore. Dawson has set his camera case on the beach (right foreground) while he makes this wet plate photo.
Date: 1881
Name(s): Dossetter, Edward
Description: Looking South through the village with a full view of the houses
