Audrey and Harry Hawthorn Library and Archives

[Bill Reid carving Spirit of Haida Gwaii model]

1-5-2 (27.2)-a035135
Item
1986

Part of William McLennan (MOA Curator) fonds

Image of Bill Reid carving a model of his sculpture The Spirit of Haida Gwaii. The photograph was taken by William McLennan in Reid's Granville Island studio.

Totem [pole], Stanley Park

25-04-13-a038531
Item
[1969?]

Part of Anthony Carter fonds

Image of the upper part of a totem pole in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC.

Anthony Carter

Stanley Park totem poles

86-02-a039713
Item
[1949 or 1950]

Part of William Carr fonds

Image of totem poles at Stanley Park. From left to right: Thunderbird house post, Wakas (Wakius) Pole, Sisa Kaulas Pole, Thunderbird house post, and the Ne-is-bik Salmon Pole.

William Carr

Wakas (Wakius) Pole

86-02-a039716
Item
[1949 or 1950]

Part of William Carr fonds

Image of Raven at the bottom of the original Wakas (Wakius) Pole in Stanley Park. Pole carved by Yuxwayu.

William Carr

Totem poles at Stanley Park

86-02-a039722
Item
[1949 or 1950]

Part of William Carr fonds

Image of totem poles at Stanley Park. From left to right: Thunderbird house post and Ne-is-bik Salmon Pole.

William Carr

Totem poles and Vancouver sky line, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

134-a040077
Item
5 Aug. 1972

Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds

(Replica)?, Haida sea wolf #2, Totem Park - UBC, Vancouver

134-a040105c
Item
7 Aug. 1972

Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds

The Wasgo is a monster of Haida legend that had the ability to transform between wolf and sea creature. Carved and painted by Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer in 1962.

(Replicas)?, mortuary poles (Haida), dwelling house and sea wolf, Totem Park, UBC, Vancouver

134-a040107c
Item
7 Aug. 1972

Part of E. Polly Hammer fonds

MOA Object ID numbers correspond to poles in the image from left to right.

A50030 carved by Bill Reid and Doug Cranmer (1961-62) as the frontal pole for the front of the Haida house, at the University of British Columbia, for display in Totem Park. Moved to the new Museum of Anthropology grounds in 1978. Pole was removed from the Haida House in 2000-09 and placed in a greenhouse tent for conservation treatment and drying. Pole was then re-raised in the Great Hall of the Museum on Oct. 31, 2002.