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: 1968
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.
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: 1879
Name(s): Horetzky
Description: Detail of Chief Gaum's house from Horetzky photograph. The exterior All Hat house posts are clearly visable.
Date: 1969
Name(s): MacDonald, George F.
Description: Interior house post of House of Gaum named Whole Being. House of Gaum is house seven on the Gitlaxdzawk map (see Gitlaxdzawk_051).
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of the face of an Eagle form a pole laying on the ground.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Eagle monument with deteriorated beak. Located at the Sheldon Jackson Museum.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Ha'u (east) Pole. It was recounted that the carver of this pole was a decedent of a Tlingit village of Kake. The pole belonged to Sonnihat's grandfather who's name was ""east."" The figures represented on the pole starting from the top are ©father of us all,© Raven, killer whale, and Raven with a human figure on front, with Root on the bottom.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of Ha'u (east) Pole. It was recounted that the carver of this pole was a decedent of a Tlingit village of Kake. The pole belonged to Sonnihat's grandfather who's name was ""east."" The figures represented on the pole starting from the top are ©father of us all,© Raven, killer whale, and Raven with a human figure on front, with Root on the bottom.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Sisiutl detail on the Walkus memorial pole, carved by Arthur Shaughnessy. 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: 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: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: This is likely a representation of Dzonoqua, the wild woman of the woods, due to the pursed lips 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: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: All Hat House post of Chief Gaum's House.
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.
