Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Smudge bowl constructed from whooping crane sternum and basketry weaving. For the shaman, whooping cranes were a signal for seasonal change and things coming from other worlds.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Smudge bowl constructed from whooping crane sternum and basketry weaving. For the shaman, whooping cranes were a signal for seasonal change and things coming from other worlds.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Smudge bowl constructed from whooping crane sternum and basketry weaving. For the shaman, whooping cranes were a signal for seasonal change and things coming from other worlds.
Date: 1927
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Wide Base pole was carved by Wii Seeks and Gwaanis for Chief Kw'axsuu of the Wolf tribe. When this pole was erected at Ank'idaa ca. 1870 it stood 45 ft tall.
Date: 1913
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: Wide Base pole was carved by Wii Seeks and Gwaanis for Chief Kw'axsuu of the Wolf tribe. When this pole was erected at Ank'idaa ca. 1870 it stood 45 ft tall.
Description: Wide Base pole was carved by Wii Seeks and Gwaanis for Chief Kw'axsuu of the Wolf tribe. When this pole was erected at Ank'idaa ca. 1870 it stood 45 ft tall.
Date: 1913
Name(s): Newcombe, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1851-1924
Description: Wide Base pole was carved by Wii Seeks and Gwaanis for Chief Kw'axsuu of the Wolf tribe. When this pole was erected at Ank'idaa ca. 1870 it stood 45 ft tall.
Date: 1966 to 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The Winged-Person totem pole was erected by Skogum Laxhe in 1920. This photograph is a detail of the face of the Winged-Person at the bottom of the pole. The Winged-Person is shown with a human face and wings of a bird.
Date: 1920 to 1925
Description: Winged-Person totem pole of Skogum Laxhe. This was his third pole, and it was erected in the upper village in 1920 in memory of Alim Laxhe. At the top of the pole is a bird, with a Winged-Person at the bottom of the pole. The Winged-Person is depicted with a human face and wings of a bird.
Date: 1923
Name(s): Shotridge, Louis
Description: Fishing station on the Chilkat River. The canoe is covered to protect it from the elements.
Date: 1966
Name(s): Ochs, Peter
Description: Detail of wolf figure on the pole by Bill Reid at UBC village.
Description: Carved door. Wolf
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of a house post depicting a wolf. 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: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Child holding the base of a support post. The carved figure appears to be a wolf biting its tail.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Wolf monument and what appears to be a welcome or ancestral figure. The wolves are likely house posts or part of a lintel that spanned an entry way.
