Date: 1972
Description: David Gunanoot making snow shoes
Date: 1972
Description: David Gunanoot making snow shoes
Date: 1972
Description: David Gunanoot making snow shoes
Date: 1972
Description: David Gunanoot making snow shoes
Date: 1972
Description: David Gunanoot making snow shoes
Date: 1972
Description: Lottie Muldow mixing yal, which means ""soapberries turned around and around"". This creamy mixture is also known to many by the name Indian ice-cream. Gertie Morrison is standing by with the spoons. These scenes of resource and food gathering were initiated in order to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers among the Gitxsan. The objective was to create colour images of practices that were partially captured in earlier black and white photographs and in…
Date: 1901
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: Sol Wilson's pole and house site.
Date: 1907
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: The is the whale and beaver mortuary and frontal pole of Something Terrible Happened House. On the left is the frontal pole of Easy to Enter House.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Elaborate carved house posts inside chief ""Sonnihat""'s house. Chief ""Sonnihat"" belonged to an eagle lineage, and the whale was part of his crest figures, which the two corner posts represent. The pole in the center was known as ""Head House Totem""
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Elaborate carved house posts inside chief ""Sonnihat""'s house. Chief ""Sonnihat"" belonged to an eagle lineage, and the whale was part of his crest figures, which the two corner posts represent. The pole in the center was known as ""Head House Totem""
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Elaborate carved house posts inside chief ""Sonnihat""'s house. Chief ""Sonnihat"" belonged to an eagle lineage, and the whale was part of his crest figures, which the two corner posts represent. The pole in the center was known as ""Head House Totem""
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Elaborate carved house post inside chief ""Sonnihat""'s house. This pole was known as ""Head House Totem""
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Elaborate carved house post inside chief ""Sonnihat""'s house. This pole was known as ""Head House Totem""
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Elaborate carved house post inside chief ""Sonnihat""'s house. This pole was known as ""Head House Totem""
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Sonnihat pole and house posts standing along the park trail. The original pole was donated to the people of Alaska in 1901 by Chief Sonnihat as a memorial to his people. The original pole was over 70 years old at the time it was donated. The second generation pole was carved by Native Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers in the 1940s.
