The pole was re-adzed and re-painted by Kwakwaka'wakw carver Mungo Martin before shipping to UBC in 1947. Repainted and repaired by Ellen Neel (1949) and by Mungo Martin (1950-51). It stood at Totem Pole Park, UBC Campus until it was re-located to the Museum's Great Hall ca. 1976.
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".
Item is an image of a group of people by a building and a totem pole, other buildings and poles visible in the background. According to annotations, photograph was taken in G?aw (also known as Old Massett) in the Haida Gwaii archipielago
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 depicts a totem pole lying on the ground. Figures are difficult to identify, but the most prominent one is probably human. Read`s diary indicates that this photo was probably taken at either the Kitwanga or Kispiox village site in Gitxsan territory of the Skeena Valley..
Image depicts a row of totem poles standing along the side of a dirt road. Based on Read`s diary and the figures on these poles, this photo may have been taken in Kitwanga, and the pole on the far left may be the Dog Salmon Pole.