World's tallest totem pole, carved by Mungo Martin, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C.
- 134-a040085c
- Item
- 9 Aug. 1972
Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds
World's tallest totem pole, carved by Mungo Martin, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C.
Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds
Parte deMissionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection
Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of a woman in a shawl. According to annotations, photograph was taken in Alert Bay.
Wolf housepost, Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw), Mamalilikulla
Parte deAnthony Carter fonds
Image of carved house posts at the Mamalilikulla village, Village Island. The post is now lying in the grass.
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Whale masks on display in Montréal
Parte deMOA General Media collection
Whale masks on display in Montréal for the Musem of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Whale hunters model on display in Montréal
Parte deMOA General Media collection
Whale hunters model by Mungo Martin on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Visitors admire masks on display in Montréal
Parte deMOA General Media collection
Visitors admire masks on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Transformation masks on display in Montréal
Parte deMOA General Media collection
Transformation masks on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Transformation masks on display in Montréal
Parte deMOA General Media collection
Transformation masks on display in Montréal for the Museum of Anthropology's Northwest Coast exhibit for "Man and His World".
Image depicts a transformation mask created by artist Stan Wamiss (Kwakwaka'wakw) installed at the Vancouver International Airport.
Parte deAnthony Carter fonds
Image of an old totem pole at the Mamalilikulla village, Village Island. The pole is being held up by a rope.
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Parte deAnthony Carter fonds
Image of an unidentified totem pole in Alert Bay.
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Parte deAnthony Carter fonds
Image of an unidentified totem pole in Alert Bay.
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Parte deMissionary 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.
Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds
This pole was on display at UBC in Totem Park in the 1960’s and 1970’s and moved to the Museum in the late 1970’s. It was carved in 1914 in Tsaxis (Fort Rupert) by George Hunt Sr. for the Edward S. Curtis film "In the Land of the War Canoes" which was originally titled "In the Land of the Head Hunters". The pole was collected by Marius Barbeau and Arthur Price in 1947. The pole was repaired and re-painted by carvers Ellen Neel in 1949 and Mungo Martin in 1950-51. It stood at Totem Park, UBC Campus until it was re-located to the Museum's Great Hall in 1976.
Iconography: Kolus is a young thunderbird. Thunderbird is a supernatural bird identifiable by the presence of ear-like projections or horns on the head, and a re-curved beak. The pole alludes to the story of Tongas people in south Alaska, who migrated south.
Top of tallest pole, carved by Mungo Martin, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C.
Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds
Parte deHarry B. Hawthorn fonds
Parte deHarry B. Hawthorn fonds
Image depicts the exhibition The Pacific Passage installed at the Vancouver International Airport. The focal point of the photograph is Hetux, a large Thunderbird sculpture created by artist Connie Watts (Nuu-chah-nulth, Gitxsan and Kwakwaka'wakw).
Tallest totem pole, carved by Mungo Martin, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C.
Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds
Tall totem pole, Alert Bay, BC
Photograph of a totem pole in Alert Bay, BC. This pole has been called the world's tallest totem pole, though this is a disputed fact since it is actually comprised of two pieces. The pole is not specific to a particular family, but represents multiple tribes of the Kwakwaka'wakw. The pole was completed in the late 1960's and raised in 1973. It is located near the Big House.
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