Image of Mungo Martin and Harry Hawthorn with Charles Docherty. Docherty was a carpenter hired as Mungo Martin's assistant on the restoration of totem poles at UBC.
A crane prepares to lift a totem pole while a number of people oversee the process. The totem pole, originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by his son, Mungo Martin, was being moved from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building.
A crane prepares to lift a totem pole while a number of people oversee the process and stand on a scaffold to wrap the pole in padding. The totem pole, originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by his son, Mungo Martin, was being moved from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building.
A crane prepares to lift a totem pole while a number of people oversee the process and stand on a scaffold to wrap the pole in padding. A crowd of people watch the process. The totem pole, originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by his son, Mungo Martin, was being moved from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building.
A scaffolding surrounds a totem pole that is being moved from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building. Staff wrap the pole in padding. The totem pole was originally carved by Charlie James and was later restored by Mungo Martin.
A totem pole being moved onto a trailer. It is being moved from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building. This totem pole was carved by Charlie James and later restored by Mungo Martin.
A totem pole lying on a truck trailer. It is being moved from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building. This totem pole was carved by Charlie James and later restored by Mungo Martin.
A totem pole being lowered onto the ground by a crane. This totem pole is in the process of being moved from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building. It was originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by Mungo Martin.
A totem pole, covered in padding, begins to be lowered from its standing position to move it from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building. This pole was originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by Mungo Martin.
A totem pole being lifted by a crane to be placed in the new Museum of Anthropology building. It was being moved from Totem Park. This totem pole was originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by Mungo Martin.
A totem pole being lifted by a crane to be placed in the new Museum of Anthropology building. It was being moved from Totem Park. This totem pole was originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by Mungo Martin.
A worker secures a totem pole to its support beam in the New Museum of Anthropology after just having moved it there from Totem Park. This pole was originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by Mungo Martin.
Totem pole standing in Totem Park at UBC. The pole on the viewer's left was carved by Mungo Martin and the pole on the right was carved by George Hunt Senior.
Item is a sound recording made by Dr. Ida Halpern of Mungo Martin singing Kwakwaka'wakw potlach songs including aw bone-game (lahal) song and a gambling song.
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.
A totem pole standing in Totem Park. This pole was carved by Mungo Martin and later restored by him at the University of British Columbia in 1950-51. It stood in Totem Park until it was moved to the new Museum of Anthropology building in 1975.
