Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Small whale detail on one of Shakes' interiror house posts
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: 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: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Whale Grave figures in commemoration of Chief Kowishte
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of Totem Pole being carved. The section that is being carved is between the whale figures eyes/eyebrows. The whale figure's eye show a good example of an Ovoid and the flow of formline design.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Whale Grave figures in commemoration of Chief Kowishte
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Whale Grave figures in commemoration of Chief Kowishte
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Graveyard figures in commemoration of Chief Kowishte
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Carved whale's head
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Young boy with killer whale helmet
Date: 1900 to 1910
Description: Xwamdasbe' man and children in the entrance of Whale House.
Date: 1878
Name(s): Dawson, George Mercer, 1849-1901
Description: Whale House, which was abandoned at the death of the house chief. The frontal pole is leaning and is being propped up with a small pole.
Date: 1895
Description: Woodworm feast dish, and bentwood boxes. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.
Date: 1895
Description: Gaanaxteidi men among their at.oow (sacred items). All of the items on display can be seen worn by clansmen in other Winter & Pond images of the house interior. Items include the Mother basket or Mother-of-Spruce basket; a mask carved in the likeness of X'akat. ahan, the woman who raised the Wood Worm; and various other masks, tunics,and hats.
Date: 1991
Name(s): Miller, G.
Description: Painting of Whale House interior at the Tlingit village of Klukwan. Based on a Winter & Pond photograph.
