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: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: This is one of two wolf monuments. The wolves are likely house posts or part of a lintel that spanned an entry way.
Description: Wolf charm, carved and polished bone.
Date: 1934
Name(s): Barrow, F. J.
Description: Rear interior poles of Chief Herbert Johnson's House. Two wolf figures set on carvings of coppers. Three wolves sit atop the lintel joining the two poles. Re-carvings of these poles and lintel are currently located on the inside and outside of the entryway at Big House.
Date: 1967
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: 2008
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Totem pole at Kitselas Canyon representing Wolf clan. Carved by Stan Beven
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The Wolf Pole, which derives its name from the prominant figure of a wolf in the centre of the pole. The top figure is a man, possibly a village watchman or the owner of the totem pole. The bottom figure is a salmon. Two interpretations of the pole exist. The most likely is that the wolf and salmon represent clan crest symbols, or they may identify the clan crests of a husband and wife. The other interpretation identifies this pole as a legend pole. This interpretation recognizes the salmon as…
Name(s): Sawyer, Alan R. (Alan Reed), 1919-2002
Description: Dagger pommel etched in the image of a wolf. Similar design to a double bladed war dagger.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Base of a house post at Mimkwamlis. 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: 1900 to 1910
Description: Wolf house posts at 'Mimkwamlis
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Painted power board depicting humanoid figures, and central wolf figure.
Description: Shamanistic amulet carved from bone, in the image of a wolf. Abalone inay in eye, and missing pieces indicated by rectangular grooves.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Carved shaman's staff, Wolf image, carved, painted with abalone inlay in eyes.
Date: 1900 to 1905
Name(s): Haldane, B. A.
Description: Chief Minesque's chilkat robe on woman in the center. The robe is now in the Royal Ontario Museum.
Date: 1972
Description: Re-enactment of the First Salmon Ceremony performed by the 'Ksan Performing Arts Group. The re-enactment is based on the narrative recorded by Franz Boas for the Gitselesu of Kitselas Canyon.
