Date: 1927
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Crane and Grizzly Bear pole was carved by Oyee for Chief Gints'aadax of the Wolf tribe. When it was erected in ca. 1840 it stood 75 ft tall. This pole collapsed in the Spring of 1947, years after the village had been abandoned due to regular flooding.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Kadashans' poles, the "Crane Pole" and "Redsnapper Pole"
Date: 1994
Name(s): Herem, Barry
Description: Woodworm post, Thluke-ass-a-Gars shows the Ganaxtedi clan ancestress holding the Woodworm in front of her body, while two worms crawl on her head. The lower figures are a Crane holding a Frog in its bill. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.
Date: 1994
Name(s): Herem, Barry
Description: Crane's wing and frog at base of Woodworm post. Whale house, Ganaxtedi clan.
Date: 1972
Description: Art Sterritt making silver bracelet
Date: 1972
Description: Leonard Duncan decorating a bentwood box. The body of a bentwood box is steamed and formed using a single piece of Western Red Cedar. It is a practice unique to the Northwest Coast of North America. Traditional uses of the boxes are varied and include storage of food goods, clothing and burial. Many were not decorated while others were decorated elaborately.
Date: 1972
Description: Leonard Duncan decorating a bentwood box. The body of a bentwood box is steamed and formed using a single piece of Western Red Cedar. It is a practice unique to the Northwest Coast of North America. Traditional uses of the boxes are varied and include storage of food goods, clothing and burial. Many were not decorated while others were decorated elaborately.
Date: 1972
Description: Leonard Duncan decorating a bentwood box. The body of a bentwood box is steamed and formed using a single piece of Western Red Cedar. It is a practice unique to the Northwest Coast of North America. Traditional uses of the boxes are varied and include storage of food goods, clothing and burial. Many were not decorated while others were decorated elaborately.
Date: 1972
Description: Leonard Duncan decorating a bentwood box. The body of a bentwood box is steamed and formed using a single piece of Western Red Cedar. It is a practice unique to the Northwest Coast of North America. Traditional uses of the boxes are varied and include storage of food goods, clothing and burial. Many were not decorated while others were decorated elaborately.
Date: 1972
Description: Leonard Duncan decorating a bentwood box. The body of a bentwood box is steamed and formed using a single piece of Western Red Cedar. It is a practice unique to the Northwest Coast of North America. Traditional uses of the boxes are varied and include storage of food goods, clothing and burial. Many were not decorated while others were decorated elaborately.
Date: 1972
Description: Leonard Duncan decorating a bentwood box. The body of a bentwood box is steamed and formed using a single piece of Western Red Cedar. It is a practice unique to the Northwest Coast of North America. Traditional uses of the boxes are varied and include storage of food goods, clothing and burial. Many were not decorated while others were decorated elaborately.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Slat armour with crest design painted on it.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Human figure crouching, carved and painted and adorned with hair.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Boy wearing grizzly bear claw crown.
Date: 1972
Description: Mashing huckelberries. These scenes of food processing were initiated in order to fill some of the gaps left by earlier anthropologist and cultural observers among the Gitxsan. The Book Builders of 'Ksan produced a volume on these collecting and processing practices titled Gathering what the Great Nature provided: food traditions of the Gitksan, by the people of 'Ksan.
