Date: 1915 to 1925
Name(s): Shotridge, Louis
Description: Grave depicting a frog emerging from it. The inscription reads "In Memory of Yandaqin-Yel Sta-HuanQuwu-cuelGuan-NestiHays-Neech"
Name(s): Sawyer, Alan R. (Alan Reed), 1919-2002
Description: Stone club collected on the Cook expedition, 1778. Club depicts a face with human hair attached to the head, and a protruding stone tongue.
Name(s): Sawyer, Alan R. (Alan Reed), 1919-2002
Description: Stone club collected on the Cook expedition, 1778. Club depicts a face with human hair attached to the head, and a protruding stone tongue.
Date: 1915 to 1925
Name(s): Shotridge, Louis
Description: Box that appears to be holding a number of implements, possibly a number of carved spoons or other utensils.
Date: 1972
Description: Making hemlock cakes 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 people of 'Ksan.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Kahl-teen's pole, erected about 1900. The main figure, at the top, is Person-of-the-Glacier.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Kahl-teen's pole, erected about 1900. The main figure, at the top, is Person-of-the-Glacier.
Date: 1960 to 1970
Description: The Seward Pole or ""secretary of state pole"" is a ridicule or shame pole. It commemorates how U.S. Secretary of State William Seward failed to honor his hosts when he visited in 1869. The figure on the pole has its ears and nose painted red to indicate his stinginess. 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,…
Date: 1968
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: 1992
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Middle secition of Nisga'a pole at the Edenburough Museum. The label reads: ""Totem Pole Red cedar carved in about 1855 by Oyea Tait, Nishga group of the Tsimshian people, Angyada village, British Columbia, Canada 1930.291 The pole was carved in memory of a Nishga chief, Tsawit. It is 11.3 meters (37 feet) high and originally stood in front of the house of Tsawit's relatives in Angyada village on the Nass River. In 1929 the pole was purchased from its owner by the Royal Scottish Museum. The…
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The original version of this pole stood at Howkan village, Alaska. It stood in front of Chief Skowl's house and has a naturalistic American eagle on the top, flanked by two traditional watchmen. Below that is a figure of the Czar of Russia with flowing locks and a beard. He wears a coat with epaulets and stands between the ears of the Thunderbird that sports an incredible display of plumage on its head, wings, breast, tail and even its feet. At the base, a standing Bear holds an insect in its…
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The original totem poles from Klawock were carved many years ago at a site on nearby Tuxecan Island where a large Tlingit settlement once existed. Later, around the 1930s, copies of those totems were re-carved by unemployed master boat builders in Klawock through the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a public work relief program.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: A human figure, which appears to be biting the ear of a small dog. The face of a bear can be seen below this figure.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of a Bill Reid pole at the Haida Village at the Museum of Anthropology. At the centre of the complex are two Haida houses and six poles created between 1960 and 1962 by the late Haida artist Bill Reid and 'Namgis artist Doug Cranmer. The two cedar-plank houses are of great historical significance, and were likely the first traditional-style Haida dwellings to be built in the 20th century. 66-8-
Date: 1927
Name(s): Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1939
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.
