School group in the Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology.

Two men, possibly Rudy Kovach and Anthony Carter, stand near a house frontal totem pole newly installed in the Museum of Anthropology.

Two men, possibly Rudy Kovach and Anthony Carter, stand near a house frontal totem pole newly installed in the Museum of Anthropology.

Detail of a house post from the Museum of Anthropology's collection.

Preparations being made to move house posts from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building.

Items from the Museum of Anthropology including house posts, feast dishes, a bentwood box, and model totem poles, on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Items from the Museum of Anthropology including house posts, feast dishes, a bentwood box, and model totem poles, on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Items from the Museum of Anthropology including house posts, feast dishes, a bentwood box, and model totem poles, on display in Montréal for the Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Poles laid out or standing up in the new Museum of Anthropology building during the process of moving in.

Item is a photograph showing people gathered outside of a large buildings on a cobble stone street.

Image of a house post and several packed boxes, likely in preparation for moving to the new museum. Photograph may have been taken by Ria Rowe.

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)."

Dilapidated house with totem pole in foreground