Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Haida poles on display at UBC

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[1958?]

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Totem poles from Anthony Island on display at UBC outside the War Memorial Gym.

Haida mortuary poles at SGang Gwaay Llanagaay

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1901

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Series of Haida Mortuary poles from SGang Gwaay photographed by Charles F. Newcombe in 1901. The third pole from the left was taken down in 1957 and held at the University of British Columbia and the Museum of Anthropology. In 2009 it was taken down from the Great Hall in the Museum of Anthropology and placed into massive carving storage in preparation for repatriation to the Haida nation.

Totem pole at Kitwancool

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[19--?]

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Totem pole standing in situ at Kitwancool. It was later removed and taken to the University of British Columbia. It currently stands in the Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology.

House frontal totem pole being lowered

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1954

Parte deMOA General Media collection

House frontal totem pole being lowered on Tanu Island in 1954. This pole was cut into four sections and is displayed in these sections at the Museum of Anthropology.

House frontal totem pole in situ

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1956

Parte deMOA General Media collection

House frontal totem pole in situ at Oweekeno. This pole was removed by the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee and now stands in the Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology.

Skedans Grizzly Bear Pole

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1954

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Grizzly Bear house frontal totem pole being worked on by members of the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee. This pole was removed from Skedans and is now housed at the Museum of Anthropology.

House frontal totem pole in situ

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1956

Parte deMOA General Media collection

House frontal totem pole in situ at Oweekeno. This pole was removed by the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee and now stands in the Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology.

House frontal totem pole in situ

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1956

Parte deMOA General Media collection

House frontal totem pole in situ at Oweekeno. This pole was removed by the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee and now stands in the Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology.

Totem pole at Man & His World carved by Henry Hunt-Montreal Expo '67

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1967

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Detail of a totem pole carved by Henry Hunt at Expo 67 in Montréal.

Museum of Anthropology

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[197-?]

Parte deMOA General Media collection

View of the Museum of Anthropology around the time of its official opening in May, 1976. The mortuary poles on the viewer's right were carved by Doug Cranmer and Bill Reid.