Totem poles

81-04-a033231
Item
[1940 - 1970]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Several individuals, men and women, work on a totem pole located inside a tent. One wall of the tent has been pushed aside to reveal trees and sky in the distance. This appears to have been taken at the same time as item a033228.

Totem pole detail

94-a034837
Item
1948

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts a close up showing the details of the lower figures on a totem pole, probably the Snag-of-the-Sand-Bar pole from the House of Chief Skogum Laxhe. The bottom figure is is the monster Hagwelawrh, who lives under the water and causes the Sand-Bar to raise with his back. See also image a034836 for another view of this pole.

Totem pole for Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

25-05-11-a039552
Item
1977

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a close-up of a totem pole mid carving with tools on top and on the side

Anthony Carter

Totem pole for Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

25-05-11-a039553
Item
1977

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a close-up of a totem pole mid carving with tools on top

Anthony Carter

Totem pole for Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

25-05-11-a039557
Item
1977

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a close-up of a totem pole mid carving with tools on top

Anthony Carter

Totem pole for Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

25-05-11-a039558
Item
1977

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a close-up of a totem pole mid carving with tools on top

Anthony Carter

Totem pole for Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

25-05-11-a039551
Item
1977

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a close-up of a totem pole mid carving with a tool on top

Anthony Carter

Totem pole for Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

25-05-11-a039555
Item
1977

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a close-up of a totem pole mid carving with tools on top

Anthony Carter

Totem pole for Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

25-05-11-a039559
Item
1977

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a close-up of a totem pole mid carving

Anthony Carter

Totem pole for Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

25-05-11-a039554
Item
1977

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a close-up of a totem pole mid carving with tools on top

Anthony Carter

Totem pole for Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

25-05-11-a039556
Item
1977

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a close-up of a totem pole mid carving with tools on top

Anthony Carter

Totem pole for Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

25-05-11-a039560
Item
1977

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of a close-up of a totem pole mid carving

Anthony Carter

Totem Pole in Alert Bay

Part of Missionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of a totem with a building in the background and a boat in the foreground with low tide. Based on the original order of the collection, photograph might have been taken in Alert Bay.

Totem Pole in clearing

81-04-a033260
Item
[ca. 1960 - 1990]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

View of a Kwakiutl totem pole on Alert Bay, Cormorant Island, British Columbia. Pole stands in Nimpkish Band Cemetery and was carved by Willie Seaweed with Joe Seaweed. It is a memorial to Billie Moon and was carved in 1931. It depicts a Thunderbird grasping the head of Dzoonokwa, a giantess. See also images a033236, a033242, and a033247, which also depict this pole.

Totem pole in field

81-04-a033256
Item
[ca. 1960 - 1990]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Image depicts a large totem pole standing in a field and surrounded by some brush. This pole resembles one carved by Arthur Shaughnessy, raised in 1924 as a memorial for Chief Wakas . It depicts a Thunderbird with no wings, Dzunuk'wa, Grizzly Bear, Raven, and Sisiyutl.