Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Various poles at Klawock. Carved figures on the poles include a number of human or ancestor figures as well as bears, seals, Raven, a Bullhead and whales.
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: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Piece of a decayed totem pole at Stanley Park. 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 poles were all from the Alert Bay area, but others were purchased from…
Date: 1913
Name(s): MacKenzie, J.
Description: Smoothed vertical pole with a bird, possibly a thunderbird, sitting on top.
Description: Dog Salmon pole
Description: Gitksan, Ksan village, Dog Salmon pole from Gitwangak village which was cast to produced this copy in fibre glass for the 'Ksan Historical Village. It was part of the trade to bring the original pole that had fallen at Gitwangak to Ottawa for restoration and installation in the Grand Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1989.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: New Kasaan, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Replica of a Haida pole by Tsimshian carver Chief William Jeffery.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Located at the mouth of Knight Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in a crushing blow to potlatching in December 1921.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Totem in front of a house, with human and bear or wolf figures
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Power lines and a totem pole standing in the village. Located at the mouth of Knight Inlet, between the north east coast of Vancouver Island and the mainland, the Mamalilikala band have inhabited this site for centuries. Mimkwamlis was once the largest village on the coast and it is also where the government and First Nations met head to head in a crushing blow to potlatching in December 1921.
Description: Pole and houses at 'Ksan Histoical Village
Date: 2008
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Visitor Centre at Kitselas Canyon 2008.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Base of the strong man pole
