Coast Spirit - Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
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N 48° 27.792 W 123° 18.618
10U E 477060 N 5367831
This sculpture is located in front of the Mearns Centre for Learning at the University of Victoria at 3800 Finnerty Road in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada.
Waymark Code: WMK6GH
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 02/19/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Tharandter
Views: 4

A UVic student project website describes the sculpture:
Coast Spirit, like many of Mayhew's sculptures, speaks of the human creature and their needs. This piece, which takes the shape of a totem pole, is a "totemistic presentation of human history", and a statement concerning "man's need to worship". It stands in the University of Victoria's quadrangle along with Coast Salish totem poles. Although Coast Spirit is a bronze cast, and thus differs in material and appearance from the wooden totem poles, it is essentially an exploration of the same themes of the Salish poles - that of human origin and history.
Coast Spirit was made by renowned and pioneering Canadian female artist Elza Mayhew for the 1967 Canadian Centennial celebrations. It was originally displayed outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver in the summer of 1967, then later gifted to the university by the artist and Walter Koerner, the chair of the UBC board of governors, on November 15, 1968.

The sculpture weighs in at just under 4000 pounds and stands 14 feet tall.
Title: Coast Spirit

Artist: Elza Mayhew

Media (materials) used: Bronze

Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): University of Victoria

Date of creation or placement: 1967

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