Tallest totem pole, carved by Mungo Martin, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C.
- 134-a040084c
- Item
- 9 Aug. 1972
Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds
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Tallest totem pole, carved by Mungo Martin, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C.
Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds
Tall totem pole, Alert Bay, BC
Photograph of a totem pole in Alert Bay, BC. This pole has been called the world's tallest totem pole, though this is a disputed fact since it is actually comprised of two pieces. The pole is not specific to a particular family, but represents multiple tribes of the Kwakwaka'wakw. The pole was completed in the late 1960's and raised in 1973. It is located near the Big House.
Mildred Laurie
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts Douglas Cranmer on a break from carving. He smokes a cigarette as his chain saw rests on the ground.
Supports being affixed to a totem pole
Part of MOA General Media collection
Workers affixing supports to a totem pole in Totem Park in advance of it being moved from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building.
This pole was carved by George Hunt Sr. The pole is now part of the museum's collection. This pole was originally carved for the Edward S. Curtis film "In the Land of the War Canoes" which was originally titled "In the Land of the Head Hunters." The pole was repaired and re-painted by carvers Ellen Neel in 1949 and Mungo Martin in 1950-51. It stood at Totem Park, UBC Campus until it was re-located to the Museum's Great Hall in 1976.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a frontal view of a sun mask.
Stone sculptures, a frog figure, and other items on display in Montréal
Part of MOA General Media collection
Stone sculptures, a frog figure, and other items on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Staff wrapping a totem pole in padding
Part of MOA General Media collection
Workers stand on a scaffold to wrap a totem pole in padding to prepare it for being moved from its position in Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building. This totem pole was originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by Mungo Martin.
Staff wrapping a totem pole in padding
Part of MOA General Media collection
Workers stand on a scaffold to wrap a totem pole in padding to prepare it for being moved from its position in Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building. This totem pole was originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by Mungo Martin.
Staff research, publications and productions
Subseries consists of material produced by museum staff, among them Wilson Duff, Harry and Audrey Hawthorn, Marjorie Halpin, and Gloria Cranmer Webster. There is extensive material on Audrey Hawthorn’s Art of the Kwakiutl Indians. Included in this subseries are ca. 2000 photographs which were collected for possible use in this book. Photographs are numbered A38-A17206 with many numbers missing throughout. The majority of photographs are of wooden masks, but they are also of bowls, bentwood boxes, paddles, rattles, totem poles, talking sticks, headdresses and frontlets, wooden figures and miniatures, whistles, spoons, silver bracelets, argillite carvings, button blankets, chilkat blankets, cedar head and neck rings, woodworking tools, stone tools, and fish hooks. Other record forms included in this subseries include correspondence, notes and published materials.
St. Michael's Indian Residential School, Alert Bay
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay. A similar image is printed on page 35 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "Two fine old carved columns stand guard in front of the school."
Anthony Carter
St. Michael's Indian Residential School, Alert Bay
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a St. Michael's Indian Residential School in Alert Bay. A similar image is printed on page 35 of Carter's book "From History's Locker," with the caption: "Two fine old carved columns stand guard in front of the school."
Anthony Carter
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a small scale totem pole which seems to be situated in a cemetery. The bottom figure seems to be human and the top an eagle.
Small scale totem, top section closeup
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a top section closeup of a small-scale totem pole in front of a door. Visible are two beaked figures, with another seated figure. See items a034476 - a034482 for other views of this pole.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a side view of a small-scale totem pole in front of a door. The top two figures have long beaks, a third figure has wings but no visible beak, and a human figure is seated at the bottom. See items a034476 - a034482 for other views of this pole.
Small scale totem, side and front view
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a side/front view of a small-scale totem pole in front of a door. The top two figures have long beaks, a third figure has a beak that is bent downward, and a human figure is seated at the bottom. Each winged figure is protecting a smaller figure. Two are possibly human and the third appears to be a frog. See items a034476 - a034482 for other views of this pole.
Small scale totem, midsection closeup
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a midsection closeup of a small-scale totem pole in front of a door. Visible are two figures, one possibly a seated human perched on top of what may be a Thunderbird. Each figure seems to be sitting in a corner. See items a034476 - a034482 for other views of this pole.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a carved head. The eyes on the face are shut; the mouth is open in an o-shape. This view depicts the entire face.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts a carved head. The eyes on the face are shut; the mouth is open in an o-shape.
Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds
Image depicts two carvings entitled Slave Killers. The photograph was taken outside and the two figures appear to be getting ready to throw a black object.