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Metadata
Title |
Skedans, Haida Gwaii |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Catalog Number |
2011.2.1.3 |
Creator |
Adelaide de Menil |
Date |
1967/08 |
Scope & Content |
Photograph depicts a memorial pole with 14 sgil (potlatch rings) and a beaver at the base. The pole is in the woods. This photograph was taken in Haida territory. The pole was raised for a brother of Captain Klue of Those Born at Skedans. The brother was among a number of people who drowned near Skedans. |
Level of description |
Item |
Collection |
Adelaide de Menil Collection |
Parent Catalog Number |
2011.2.1 |
Ownership |
Bill Reid Foundation |
People |
de Menil, Adelaide |
Subjects |
Totem poles Forests Memorial poles |