Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

Parte deMissionary Society of the Church of England in Canada Slide Collection

Item is a hand-tinted glass lantern slide of a street with five totems. According to annotations, photograph was taken in Alert Bay.

Totem Pole in Alert Bay

Parte deMissionary 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.

Skidegate Totems -- Q. C. Is.

89-a039245
Item
[1888?]

Parte deReverend Smith Stanley Osterhout fonds

Three large totem poles with a building and forest in the background

Thunderbird Park and provencial [sic] museum, Victoria, BC

134-a040078
Item
9 Aug. 1972

Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds

Tallest totem pole, carved by Mungo Martin, Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C.

134-a040084c
Item
9 Aug. 1972

Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds

Totem Park, UBC, Vancouver, Kwakiutl (#2 + 5 carved by Mungo Martin), Alert Bay sea lion pole #2, new Mungo Martin pole #5, frontal pole #6, eagle crest pole #7

134-a040100c
Item
7 Aug. 1972

Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds

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.

Kwakiutl, new Mungo Martin pole #1, Totem Park, UBC, Vancouver

134-a040103c
Item
7 Aug. 1972

Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds

Carved by Mungo Martin 1951. Erected in UBC Totem Park. Moved to MOA in 1970’s but not erected in Great Hall until 2012 after repairs.

Top of eagle chief's pole of Tanu (original), Fulton Street Park, Prince Rupert, B.C.

134-a040121c
Item
13 Aug. 1972

Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds

Poles at Museum of Northern British Columbia, Prince Rupert

134-a040127c
Item
13 Aug. 1972

Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds

Anget pole of Ninstints (copy by William Jeffrey)

134-a040128c
Item
13 Aug. 1972

Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds

Eagle + grizzly pole of Yan (L.), Flower pole of Yan (R.)

134-a040129c
Item
13 Aug. 1972

Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds

Copy of grizzly bear totem in Moose Tot park, Prince Rupert, BC.

134-a040130c
Item
13 Aug. 1972

Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds

John Kelley, Village Island, Alaska - Totem

134-a040149c
Item
[ca. 1972]

Parte deE. Polly Hammer fonds

House frontal totem poles

132-1-C-C-a041639
Item
1954?

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Image of several house frontal totem poles at Ninstints on Anthony Island. The totem pole in the foreground is recognizable as one that was transferred to the Museum of Anthropology in 1954. While the others likely were as well, they are more difficult to identify.

Henry Speck carving house posts for Bighouse in Alert Bay

81-05-a033146
Item
1964

Parte deThomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of two house posts being carved in a carving shed in Alert Bay, BC. Henry Speck smiles in foreground and two other carvers can be seen behind him.

Henry Speck carving house posts for Bighouse in Alert Bay

81-05-a033142
Item
1964

Parte deThomas and Mildred Laurie collection

Photograph of two house posts being carved in a carving shed, in Alert Bay, BC. Three people, including Henry Speck, can be seen working on the posts.

Audrey and Harry Hawthorn

132-1-C-E-a042596
Item
[ca. 1976]

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Audrey and Harry Hawthorn in the new Museum of Anthropology. This photograph was likely taken around the time the Museum Opened in May, 1976.

Totem pole lying on the ground

132-1-C-E-a042791
Item
[195-?]

Parte deMOA General Media collection

Totem pole lying on the ground. This photograph was likely taken by a member of the B.C. Totem Pole Preservation Committee on an expedition to Anthony Island or Hope Island.