Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Human figure, most likely a shaman, with numerous depictions of sea lions. The original totem poles were carved many years ago at a site on nearby Tuxekan Island where a large Tlingit settlement once existed. Later, around the 1930s, copies of those totems were re-carved by unemployed master boat builders in Klawock through the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a public work relief program.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The 'Namgis Burial Grounds at Alert Bay is an old native cemetery and one of the few remaining locations on the BC coast where totems remain undisturbed on their original site.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of a mortuary post that depicts a grizzly bear holding a human figure, a possible variant of the Bear Mother myth.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of a mortuary post that depicts a grizzly bear holding a human figure, a possible variant of the Bear Mother myth.
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Bear post from Killer Whale Long Dorsal Fin Hous, Kagwantan clan. Collected by Louis Shotridge in 1930 for the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Date: 1971
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: The beaver house post of Gitlaxdzawk representing the giant beaver Pelemgwae. Known as the Peleqwa House post, it belonged to the house of Iyoos. House 1 on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Date: 1971
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: The beaver house post of Gitlaxdzawk representing the giant beaver Pelemgwae. The pole was reerected through a project of the National Museum of Canada in 1927. Known as the Peleqwa House post, it belonged to the house of Iyoos. House one on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remaining Kaigani Haida monumental poles at the village of Howkan. One difference from the Kaigani Haidas compared to the Haidas on Haida Gwaii is the ""ribbing"" in the ears. Both poles have the sgil (potlatch rings) above which likely means they are Memorial poles.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remaining Kaigani Haida monumental poles at the village of Howkan. One difference from the Kaigani Haidas compared to the Haidas on Haida Gwaii is the ""ribbing"" in the ears. Both poles have the sgil (potlatch rings) above which likely means they are Memorial poles.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remaining Kaigani Haida monumental poles at the village of Howkan. One difference from the Kaigani Haidas compared to the Haidas on Haida Gwaii is the ""ribbing"" in the ears. Both poles have the sgil (potlatch rings) above which likely means they are Memorial poles.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remaining Kaigani Haida monumental poles at the village of Howkan. One difference from the Kaigani Haidas compared to the Haidas on Haida Gwaii is the ""ribbing"" in the ears. Both poles have the sgil (potlatch rings) above which likely means they are Memorial poles.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remaining Kaigani Haida monumental poles at the village of Howkan. One difference from the Kaigani Haidas compared to the Haidas on Haida Gwaii is the ""ribbing"" in the ears. Both poles have the sgil (potlatch rings) above which likely means they are Memorial poles.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Remaining Kaigani Haida monumental poles at the village of Howkan. One difference from the Kaigani Haidas compared to the Haidas on Haida Gwaii is the ""ribbing"" in the ears. Both poles have the sgil (potlatch rings) above which likely means they are Memorial poles.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The top of a Memorial pole, the figure is a bird depiction. Memorial Pole at Old Kasaan. The figure has a Beaver at the base holding a stick, with a smaller bear or beaver figure above the tail. Above the figures are sgil or Potlatch Rings.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: The top of a Memorial pole, the figure is a bird depiction. Memorial Pole at Old Kasaan. The figure has a Beaver at the base holding a stick, with a smaller bear or beaver figure above the tail. Above the figures are sgil or Potlatch Rings.
