Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Totem pole installation, Museum of Anthropology

25-05-11-a038722
Item
[1976]

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of MOA Director Michael Ames with pole A50020 as it was being installed in MOA's Great Hall.

Totem pole in village

51-01-28-a039434
Item
1955 or 1956

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Totem pole in unidentified village

51-01-28-a039456
Item
1955 or 1956

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Image of an older, short totem pole, featuring a human figure at the top.

Totem pole in the Museum of Anthropology

132-1-C-C-a041520
Item
1976?

Part of MOA General Media collection

A totem pole on display at the crossroads to the Great Hall in the Museum of Anthropology. This pole was transferred to UBC from Ninstints in 1957.

Totem pole in the Museum of Anthropology

132-1-C-C-a041571
Item
1976?

Part of MOA General Media collection

Totem pole on display in the Museum of Anthropology.

Totem pole in packing crate

92-1-a034497
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a completed totem pole wrapped in plastic and enclosed in a wooden packing crate.

Totem pole in packing crate

92-1-a034493
Item
[ca. 1964 - 1967]

Part of Virginia Kehoe fonds

Image depicts a totem pole inside a wooden packing crate.

Totem pole in New Hazelton, B.C.

134-a040139c
Item
26 Aug. 1972

Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds

Totem pole in Jasper

134-a040098c
Item
28 Aug. 1972

Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds

Totem pole in Gitsegukla

25-04-08-a038434
Item
November 1969

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of the top portion of an unidentified totem pole in Gitsegukla, BC. The pole is seen from a distance, with trees and shrubs all around.

Anthony Carter

Totem pole in forest, Anthony Island

51-01-29-a039483
Item

Part of Harry B. Hawthorn fonds

Totem pole in field

81-04-a033256
Item
[ca. 1960 - 1990]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Image depicts a large totem pole standing in a field and surrounded by some brush. This pole resembles one carved by Arthur Shaughnessy, raised in 1924 as a memorial for Chief Wakas . It depicts a Thunderbird with no wings, Dzunuk'wa, Grizzly Bear, Raven, and Sisiyutl.

Totem Pole in clearing

81-04-a033260
Item
[ca. 1960 - 1990]

Part of Thomas and Mildred Laurie collection

View of a Kwakiutl totem pole on Alert Bay, Cormorant Island, British Columbia. Pole stands in Nimpkish Band Cemetery and was carved by Willie Seaweed with Joe Seaweed. It is a memorial to Billie Moon and was carved in 1931. It depicts a Thunderbird grasping the head of Dzoonokwa, a giantess. See also images a033236, a033242, and a033247, which also depict this pole.

Totem Pole in Alert Bay

Part of Missionary 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.