Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Unknown artist carving a screen.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of a human figure from an unknown totem pole. Likely at an Alaskan museum.
Date: 1994
Name(s): Herem, Barry
Description: Returning Whale house posts to Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.
Date: 1932
Name(s): Inverarity, Robert Bruce, 1909-1999
Description: House with two poles in the background. The pole on the left is a mortuary that is missing the plaque that conceals the remains. The pole directly behind has carved cylinders or potlatch rings.
Date: 1972
Description: Geoerge MacDonald helping to unpack a bentwood box full of sopberries.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: When standing, this pole showed a human figure with crossed arms wearing a frog hat. Below is Gonakadet, and what appears to be a child, holding a whale. The bottom figure looks like a wolf or possibly a Sea Grizzly.
Date: 1947
Description: Looking northeast along a street in the upper village at Gitsegukla. This photo is after the 1945 potlatch as the Pole-of-People and Pole-in-Sand are both raised. In the background is the mountain Stickydem, from which the landslide originated that covered the ancestral town of Temlaham.
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, Bullhead and whales.
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, a sea lion, and whales. The Woodworm pole can be seen on the right. The original totem poles were carved many years ago at a site on nearby Tuxekan 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…
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: 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: 1971
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Clearing the vegitatio n from Chief Gaum's house. Rotting ridge beam is in foreground. The village of Gitlaxdzawk is situated on a small island in the Kitselas Canyon but is now connected to land by a dry gully created as a result of infill when the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad tunnels were constructed between 1910 and 1913. The people of Gitlaxdzawk along with Gitsaex operated a toll system in the Kitselas Canyon in which all foreign travelers paid a tribute to Gitselasu chiefs in order to…
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Aerial view of Klawock, Alaska.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Klemtu is the home of the Kitasoo tribe of Tsimshians, originally from Kitasu Bay, and the Xai'xais of Kynoch Inlet, a subgroup of the Heiltsuk people. These two tribes live together and are jointly governed by, the Kitasoo/Xai'xais Nation.
Description: Houses and poles at 'Ksan Historical village.
