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Partially carved mask by Freda Diesing at the 'Ksan studio, Hazelton.

For about 25 feet from the top of the pole is a plain section, followed by two large Eagles, one above the other at the bottom.

Detail of the lower section of the pole showing the Eagle (Mawdzeks), a Whole-Person, a second Eagle, and at the base of the pole another Whole-Person.

At the top of the pole is the name Ha'tu with a Woodpecker underneath. Next is a Whole-Person, a Frog-between-Two-Sticks or Flying-Frog. and then the Eagle. At the bottom is a short plain section with an Eagle face at each end. The lower head is upside-down.

On the right, in the foreground is the Standing-Bear pole of Spawrh. In the background is the Pole of Sanaws.

Poles from left to right: Pole of Sanaws, Standing-Bear, Place-of-Climbing, and Nose-like-Cohoe.

Side profile of the two large Eagles at the bottom of the pole.

Detail of the Corpse-Split-in-Two, Nose-like-Cohoe, the Man-of-the-Wilds or Bush-Man, with a small frog in his hands, and then the Small-Children or Lying-Outwards-in-Water.

Detail of the Small-Children or Lying-Outwards-in-Water depicted as the three small human figures in a row, and then Half-Way-Out or Man-of-the Wilds.

The Eagle (Mawdzeks), a Whole-Person, a second Eagle, and at the base of the pole another Whole-Person.

People gathered at the edge of the river waiting for the Inlander, which was a stern wheeler riverboat. In the background, the poles from left to right are: the Pole of Sanaws, Standing-Bear, Place-of-Climbing, and Nose-like-Cohoe.

Detail of the Small-Children or Lying-Outwards-in-Water.

Taken from the hill above the village where the cemetery is located.

Place-of-Climbing or Place-Where-Bears-Cool-Off pole of Kwawhadaq. On the right is Nose-like-Cohoe pole of Gitemraldo.

Shown decaying on the ground, this pole was once a ceremonial entrance (for feasts) and consists of a large human figure that has a crown of five small human figures called Lying-Outwards-in-Water or Small-Children.