Totem poles

Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology

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Stuk
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Totem poles in the Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology.

School group at the Museum of Anthropology

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Stuk
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

School group at the Museum of Anthropology.

Ramp of the Museum of Anthropology

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Stuk
[197-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Ramp with totem poles at the Museum of Anthropology.

Pole silhouette, water, and mountains

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Stuk
1955 or 1956

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Pole of Skim-sim and Will-a-daugh. Massive carving in Gitanyow.

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Stuk
1955 or 1956

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Totem pole in Kitwancool / Gitanyow outside the house of Wii Xá, a chief of the Lax Gibuu clan of the Gitanyow. Features a carved bird on top, two other larger figures below, and two rows with bands of much smaller carved figures. Known as the pole of Skim-sim and Will-a-daugh. Pole is now at MOA - object ID: A50019.

River's Inlet (U'bis), Walkus Pole, May 55

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Stuk
May 1955

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Close-up of figure on totem pole

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Stuk
1955 or 1956

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Leaning totem pole in front of house

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Stuk

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Unidentified totem pole

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Stuk
1955 or 1956

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Unidentified totem pole, decaying and leaning

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Stuk
1955 or 1956

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Beaver pole, Anthony Island

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Stuk

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Image of a section of a totem pole, featuring a beaver, on Anthony Island, Haida Gwaii. This appears to be a pole now housed at the Museum of Anthropology (museum item #A50013). This museum item has the following description: "Base section of a wooden totem pole, crescent shaped in cross section and carved in shallow and deep relief. Depicted is a seated beaver with one potlatch ring between erect ears; protruding upper incisors; raised forepaws and hind paws grasping chewing sticks. Below its rectangular shaped crosshatched tail is a human face with large circular eyes. Traces of blue in eye sockets and around nostrils... Beaver was one of crests owned by the lineage of Chief Ninstints (Tom Price), 'Those Born Up the Inlet', of the Eagle moiety... Remainder of pole, except top figure, burned when the village was burned in 1892 by the Koskimo and the crew of a sealing schooner. ."