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Item is a photograph of buildings, totem poles and harbour. Lower portion of photo is inscribed, "Indian Village Alert Bay BC"

Image depicts a part of a fallen totem pole, surrounded by foliage. The animal may be a wolf; it depicts teeth in an open mouth.

Box with figural carvings on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Bird figure on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Bentwood box on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".

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. ."