Haida Pole 1984 - Victoria, British Columbia - Outside Wooden Display Carvings on Waymarking.com

This pole, a replica of one that stood in front of a house named Rock Slide House in hlqin7ul'Ilnagaay (Cumshewa) Haida Gwaii.

The original pole was purchased by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1901. The Museum sold it to the Salvation Army for a kids camp in the 1930s. A collector acquired it in the 1960s and was then purchased in 1982 by the Canadian Museum of Civilization where it was installed in the Grand Hall in the CMC in Hull Quebec.

At the top, three watchmen on the lookout for enemy canoes, followed by a cormorant with human arms and feathers on the elbows. A whale and two human figures follow a woman clings to the whales tail while another rides its back. At the base is a grizzly bear with two human-like cubs representing the the Bear Mother story about a woman who marries a bear and gives birth to half-human, half-bear children.

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Type of wood carving: Totem pole Artist's Name: Gery Marks, Richard Hunt, Tim Paul Approximate size/height: 6 metres Type of wood: Cedar Other type: Not listed

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