Date: 1947
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: This mortuary originally featured a front plaque that had a supernatural snag on it, and on the post is a thunderbird that is shown here without its beak. This mortuary is being reclaimed by the forest growth.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remains of a mortuary post.. the top depicts a thunderbird, with the curled ears and curled beak
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A Mortuary post depiciting a thunderbird
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A Mortuary post depiciting a thunderbird
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A Mortuary post depiciting a thunderbird
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Thunderbird post. The style is similar to Kwakwaka'wakw Kolus thunderbird carvings with the spread wings and horned ears.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Thunderbird on top of the Lagis pole. Holes in the pole were made by woodpeckers.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Thunderbird and wolf at the top of the Musgamagw Dzawada'enuxw pole, formerly the King George the 6th pole.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Thunderbird post. The style is similar to Kwakwaka'wakw Kolus thunderbird carvings with the spread wings and horned ears.
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: 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: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Head of the Thunderbird on top of the Lagis pole. Holes in the pole were made by woodpeckers.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The 'Namgis Burial Grounds at Alert Bay is an old native cemetery and one of the few remaining locations on the BC coast where totems remain undisturbed on their original site.
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.
Description: Cuirass body armour, fabricated from walrus hide, string and Chinese yuan coins dating 1800-1830. donated to NMAI by Dr. A. Eugene Austin (Alonzo Eugene Austin, Jr.), 1929.
