Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Totem figure likely from the village of Kasaan on Prince of Wales Island. Now at the Sheldon Jackson Museum, Sitka.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Chief Skedans Mortuary pole. In the early 1920s, the construction of an Indian village was proposed for the area near Lumberman©s Arch in Stanley Park. The site was chosen because it was located on a massive shell midden, or cultural mound that was the result of many years of Coast Salish habitation. This large deposit of calcified shells covered an area 8 feet deep and spanning several acres. The original poles were all from the Alert Bay area, but others were purchased from the islands of…
Date: 1947
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Decaying pole beside a house post.
Date: 1947
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Remains of the entry hole in a frontal pole.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Two wolf posts and a carved monument in the shape of a human or ancestral figure. 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: Standing is a grizzly bear mortuary, and fallen is a double-finned killer whale mortuary.
Date: 1926
Name(s): Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
Description: Remains of a fallen totem pole or carved house post.
Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing dish at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Figure with upturned hands at Willie Moon grave site
Name(s): Sawyer, Alan R. (Alan Reed), 1919-2002
Description: Slat armour with carved heads and formline design. Collected on the Cook Expedition, 1778.
Name(s): Sawyer, Alan R. (Alan Reed), 1919-2002
Description: Detail of slat armour with carved heads and formline design. Collected on the Cook Expedition, 1778.
Description: Dagger with a bone or ivory pommel carved as an eagle or thunderbird and inlaid with abalone.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: War pick with jadeite blade.
Date: 1972
Description: Freda Diesing decorating a mask at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton
Date: 1972
Description: Two headed creature design on a butoon blanket.
