Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

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August 1975?

Three people discuss plans to move a totem pole from Totem Park to the new Museum of Anthropology building. The totem pole was originally carved by Charlie James and later restored by his son, Mungo Martin.

Preparing to make a rubbing of a totem pole carving

92-1-a034527
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[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Doug Cranmer preparing to make a rubbing image (using kraft paper and crayon) of the carving on a totem pole. Another person, possibly Godfrey Hunt, assists by holding the paper.

Preparing a tree for carving

92-1-a034499
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[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts Douglas Cranmer in the process of removing bark from a tree. Vintage cars are visible behind him.

Potlatch items on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040408
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

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".

Potlatch items on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040412
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

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".

Potlatch items on display in Montréal

132-1-C-A-a040413
Item
1969 or 1970

Part of MOA General Media collection

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".

Posts and totem poles laid out for reassembly

132-1-C-A-a040616
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1978?

Part of MOA General Media collection

Posts and totem poles for the Haida house and mortuary house laid out for reassembly.

Posts and totem poles laid out for reassembly

132-1-C-A-a040637
Item
1978?

Part of MOA General Media collection

Posts and totem poles for the Haida house and mortuary house laid out for reassembly.

Poles on gates of UBC entrance

132-1-C-E-a042691
Item
[196-?]

Part of MOA General Media collection

Four house front totem poles stand in a meridian, likely at the University of British Columbia. These were largely recovered from Ninstints in 1957. The building behind the poles on the viewer's left appears to be the War Memorial Gym, indicating that the photograph was likely taken on University Boulevard west of the intersection with Wesbrook Mall.

Poles of Ksrarom-Larhae

94-a034825
Item
1948

Part of Stanley E. Read fonds

Image depicts two totem poles erected very close together. Read's notes indicate that these are the Poles of Ksrarom-Larhae, located in Gitsegyukl. "Snag-of-the-Sand-Bar pole. At the bottom the monster Hagwelaworh (?), a whale-like sea monster. "