Haida house and mortuary house being reassembled
- 132-1-C-A-a040602
- Stuk
- 1978?
Part of MOA General Media collection
Image shows the Haida and mortuary houses while they were being reassembled during relocation from Totem Park.
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Haida house and mortuary house being reassembled
Part of MOA General Media collection
Image shows the Haida and mortuary houses while they were being reassembled during relocation from Totem Park.
Museum grounds facing future site of Haida house
Part of MOA General Media collection
A photograph of the museum grounds facing the future site of the Haida house and Mortuary house. An unidentified man stands in the foreground.
The mortuary house being reassembled
Part of MOA General Media collection
Image shows the mortuary house while it was being reassembled.
House posts being moved into the new Museum of Anthropology
Part of MOA General Media collection
House posts laid out or standing in the new Museum of Anthropology building during the process of moving in.
House posts being moved into the new Museum of Anthropology
Part of MOA General Media collection
House posts laid out or standing in the new Museum of Anthropology building during the process of moving in.
A crawler loader at the Museum of Anthropology
Part of MOA General Media collection
A crawler loader prepares the grounds for the new Museum of Anthropology.
Part of MOA General Media collection
View of what is now called the Bill Reid Rotunda. Instead of Raven and The First Men on display here, a Haida house frontal totem pole is on display. This pole was transferred to the Museum of Anthropology from Tanoo in 1954.
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. ."
House beams, front or rear, Anthony Island
Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
Totem pole or house post, Anthony Island
Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
House frontal totem pole, Anthony Island
Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
Image of an old house post on Anthony Island, Haida Gwaii. This appears to the same as a post now housed at the Museum of Anthropology. This museum item is decribed as follows: "The lower section of a totem, crescent shaped in cross section, carved in shallow and deep relief. From top to bottom: bear with protruding tongue and raven on body, kneeling on head of unknown creature... Figures probably from historical narratives owned by lineages of house owner and wife. Grizzly bear was a crest of the lineages of the 'Striped Town People' and 'Sand Town People' of the Raven Moiety, to one of which the husband may have belonged. The supernatural Snag was also a crest of the 'Striped Town People'. Human arms of the raven or cormorant may indicate ability to transform from animal to human."
Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
Image of a house post on Anthony Island, Haida Gwaii. This appears to be a post now housed at the Museum of Anthropology (museum item #A50016). This museum item is described as follows: "Totem, crescent shaped in cross section, carved in shallow and deep relief. From top to bottom: human with hands at right angles and fingertips touching. The arms are folded with the elbows resting on squared ears of figure below. Enclosed within this frame is a small human/hawk face with beak, surmounting the head, shoulders, and forepaws of an emerging bear cub. At the base is a bear from whose ears frogs look downward. The bear has curled nostrils; upturned mouth, raised forearms with five fingers folded over each palm, small human face between forearms... Stood at centre of back wall inside house called 'Raven House', belonging to the lineage of the'Sand Town People' of Raven moiety of Kunghit Haida. MacDonald lists it as house number 17... Pole standing when collected...Figures are crests belonging to the lineage of the owners of the house, the 'Sand Town People' of the Raven moiety. They may also refer to the Bear Mother myth."
Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds
Image of artist Bill Reid standing in the remains of a house on Anthony Island. Reid is at a slight distance from the camera, seen in silhouette standing at either the front or rear of the structure. A note, possibly written by Audrey Hawthorn, accompanies this slide. See item a039485 in this file for this note.
Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a person standing by a Haida housefront
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Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a Haida housefront
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Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a Haida housefront
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Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of two persons standing by a Haida housefront
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Haida Housefront by Gerry Marks & Francis Williams for National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
Part of Anthony Carter fonds
Image of a person standing by a Haida housefront
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