House posts in situ on Hope Island before being moved to the University of British Columbia by the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee.

House posts in situ on Hope Island before being moved to the University of British Columbia by the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee.

House posts in situ on Hope Island before being moved to the University of British Columbia by the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee.

House posts from Hope Island in situ. These were later removed and brought to UBC. They are currently housed at the Museum of Anthropology.

Grizzly Bear House posts in situ on Gilford Island. These were later removed and taken to the University of British Columbia. They are currently housed at the Museum of Anthropology.

House posts from Hope Island in situ. These were later removed and brought to UBC. They are currently housed at the Museum of Anthropology.

House posts from Hope Island in situ. These were later removed and brought to UBC. They are currently housed at the Museum of Anthropology.

House posts from Hope Island in situ. These were later removed and brought to UBC. They are currently housed at the Museum of Anthropology.

House posts in situ on Hope Island before being moved to the University of British Columbia by the Totem Pole Preservation Committee.

House frontal totem pole on Anthony Island. This pole was being collected by the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee.

Totem pole in situ being lowered by two men before being moved to the University of British Columiba by the Totem Pole Preservation Committee.

A house post and several bentwood boxes along the ramp of the Museum of Anthropology. The house post was transferred from Ninstints to the University of British Columbia in 1957.

Image of two old house posts on Hope Island, BC. The post on the right appears to be the same as a post now housed at the Museum of Anthropology, that was collected from Hope Island in 1956. Both posts feature a human figure with large eyes. On one post, the figure is holding a small face near its waist. On the other post, the figure is holding what appears to be an animal of some kind. The Museum of Anthropology's website provides the following description of the posts: "The posts of the unfinished house of Ha'm'cit were carved by a man from Smith Inlet called Si.wit who moved to Xu'mtaspi and married Tom Omhyid's mother. Ha'm'cit died before the house was finished. (Information provided to Prof. Wilson Duff by Mungo Martin). The artist's potlatch name was P'aczsmaxw. Wayne Suttles places the Xu'mtaspi village as Nahwitti, in historic times, however it was occupied jointly by the Nahwitti, the Yalhinuxw, and the Noqemqilisala (of Hanson Lagoon)."

Image of the houseposts and beam of what once was a longhouse in Quatsino, BC, on the north end of Vancouver Island. These posts appear to be the same as posts now houses at the Museum of Anthropology (museum item number A50009 a-c). The poles are described on the museum's catalogue: "Two upright posts and crossbeam that were part of a large interior house frame (also see records d-f and g-h). The uprights depict sea lions carved in high relief and painted (parts a-b). Their heads are equal size to their bodies. Both part a and b have an eagle in profile within the sea lions front flippers. Part a has a top portion of a face painted on the back of its head that is part of a sisiutl that runs down the seal lions back and into its hind flipper with a serpent's head in each. The cross-beam (part c) is painted and carved as a supernatural double-headed sea lion. All parts are painted black and white with Northwest Coast stylized forms... The Klix'ken (sea lion) House was commissioned by Tza'kyius around 1906, and was the last old style house erected in Xwatis. The beams and figures stood as part of a house frame, and acted as structural supports. Figures represented on house frames were supernatural beings which the family living in the house had the right, through their history and origins, to represent."