Old longhouse poles, featuring Huxwhukw
- 51-01-28-a039455
- Item
- 1955 or 1956
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Old longhouse poles, featuring Huxwhukw
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Totem pole in unidentified village
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Image of an older, short totem pole, featuring a human figure at the top.
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Pole silhouette, water, and mountains
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Man in mask, near village and shoreline
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Masks and small canoe carving displayed on table
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Pole of Skim-sim and Will-a-daugh. Massive carving in Gitanyow.
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Totem pole in Kitwancool / Gitanyow outside the house of Wii Xá, a chief of the Lax Gibuu clan of the Gitanyow. Features a carved bird on top, two other larger figures below, and two rows with bands of much smaller carved figures. Known as the pole of Skim-sim and Will-a-daugh. Pole is now at MOA - object ID: A50019.
Boy next to carving of canoe and two figures
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Fishing boat docked by village, with mountains in background
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View from fishing boat on water, looking toward large mountains
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Close-up of figure on totem pole
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Man seated on ground with coppers near old wooden structure
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Unidentified totem pole, decaying and leaning
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Hope Island, Humchitt posts rear
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Image of two old house posts on Hope Island, BC. The post on the right appears to be the same as a post now housed at the Museum of Anthropology, that was collected from Hope Island in 1956. Both posts feature a human figure with large eyes. On one post, the figure is holding a small face near its waist. On the other post, the figure is holding what appears to be an animal of some kind. The Museum of Anthropology's website provides the following description of the posts: "The posts of the unfinished house of Ha'm'cit were carved by a man from Smith Inlet called Si.wit who moved to Xu'mtaspi and married Tom Omhyid's mother. Ha'm'cit died before the house was finished. (Information provided to Prof. Wilson Duff by Mungo Martin). The artist's potlatch name was P'aczsmaxw. Wayne Suttles places the Xu'mtaspi village as Nahwitti, in historic times, however it was occupied jointly by the Nahwitti, the Yalhinuxw, and the Noqemqilisala (of Hanson Lagoon)."