Description: Closeup shot of carved human figure on staff, human has wings, indicating transformation.
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: 1972
Description: Detail of sun mask by Walter Harris.
Date: 1966
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Human figure with a raven on top. Note the long black feathers that distinguish the raven from representations of a cormorant.
Date: 1972
Description: Art works created by students of the Gitanmaax School of Northwest Coast Indian Art located at the 'Ksan Historical Village.
Description: Carved face of a totem pole
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of one of the twin mortuary Pole in the southern Village of Cumshewa (hlqin7ul). At the base form is a human figure and below it is a supernatural snag in human form. There would be cylinders above the figures representing the number of potlatches.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of one of the twin mortuary Pole in the southern Village of Cumshewa (hlqin7ul). At the base form is a human figure and below it is a supernatural snag in human form. There would be cylinders above the figures representing the number of potlatches.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of one of the twin mortuary Pole in the southern Village of Cumshewa (hlqin7ul). At the base form is a human figure and below it is a supernatural snag in human form. There would be cylinders above the figures representing the number of potlatches.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of one of the twin mortuary Pole in the southern Village of Cumshewa (hlqin7ul). At the base form is a human figure and below it is a supernatural snag in human form. There would be cylinders above the figures representing the number of potlatches.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of one of the twin mortuary Pole in the southern Village of Cumshewa (hlqin7ul). At the base form is a human figure and below it is a supernatural snag in human form. There would be cylinders above the figures representing the number of potlatches.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of one of the twin mortuary Pole in the southern Village of Cumshewa (hlqin7ul). At the base form is a human figure and below it is a supernatural snag in human form. There would be cylinders above the figures representing the number of potlatches.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of one of the twin mortuary Pole in the southern Village of Cumshewa (hlqin7ul). At the base form is a human figure and below it is a supernatural snag in human form. There would be cylinders above the figures representing the number of potlatches.
Date: 1968
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of one of the twin mortuary Pole in the southern Village of Cumshewa (hlqin7ul). At the base form is a human figure and below it is a supernatural snag in human form. There would be cylinders above the figures representing the number of potlatches.
Date: 1967
Name(s): De Menil, Adelaide
Description: Detail of A mortuary with a carved two fin killer whale, with a carved frog on either side of its tail fluke. The plain front plaque was probably originally painted.
