Totem Pole Collection

Totem pole, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Totem pole, between c1900 and c1930

Masked dancers-Qagyuhl, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Masked dancers-Qagyuhl, c1914. During the winter ceremony, Kwakiutl dancers wearing masks and costumes, crouch in foreground with others behind them

Tanaktak House, Harbeldown Island, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Tanaktak House, Harbeldown Island, c1914. Stairs leading up to wooden building, topped with Kwakiutl ceremonial art; in foreground one totem pole on the left

Nimkish village at Alert Bay, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Nimkish village at Alert Bay, c1914. Kwakiutl village, with totem poles, Alert Bay, British Columbia

An incident of the Winter Dance-Nakoaktok, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
An incident of the Winter Dance-Nakoaktok, c1914. Kwakiutl people, some bowing before totem poles in background, others seated facing front as part of the nunhlim ceremony

Mamalelekala chief's mortuary house, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Mamalelekala chief's mortuary house, c1914

Carved posts at Alert Bay, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Carved posts at Alert Bay, c1914. Two totem poles in front of a wood frame house in the Nimkish village Yilis, on Cormorant Island

A Tsunukwa at Kwaustums, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A Tsunukwa at Kwaustums, c1914. A Dzoonokwa (or Tsunukwa) totem pole measuring over 20 feet tall, depicting a figure with hands outstretched to receive dowry from the wife's family

A Koskimo House-post, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
A Koskimo House-post, c1914. Interior supporting columns of Koskimo home bearing carvings commemorating incidents in family history, often depicting the guardian spirit of the founder

Qagyuhl village at Fort Rupert, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Qagyuhl village at Fort Rupert, c1914. Totem pole commemorating a Tsimshian family towers over the village of Tsahes, Vancouver Island

The Raven Totem Pole, ca. 1880-1914. Creator: Theodore J. Richardson
The Raven Totem Pole, ca. 1880-1914

Alaska Building with Totems at St. Louis Exposition, 1904. Creator: Theodore J
Alaska Building with Totems at St. Louis Exposition, 1904

View of Wrangell, Alaska, in 1884. Creator: Theodore J. Richardson
View of Wrangell, Alaska, in 1884

Christ on the Cross, 1926. 1926. Creator: Paul Gauguin
Christ on the Cross, 1926

In the Land of the Totem Poles - The Indian Village of Kassan, Alaska, c1930s. Creator: Unknown
In the Land of the Totem Poles - The Indian Village of Kassan, Alaska, c1930s. From " Tour of the World". [Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa. New York, Chicago, London]

Red Indian Sagas Told in Carved and Painted Wood, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume II, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

A mystery monolith in the primeval forest of Quirigua, Guatemala, 1922. Artist: Alfred P Maudsley
A mystery monolith in the primeval forest of Quirigua, Guatemala, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume IV: Georgia to Italy

Totem Poles, Alaska, USA, 1893. Artist: John L Stoddard
Totem Poles, Alaska, USA, 1893. Illustration from Portfolio of Photographs of Famous Cities, Scenes and Paintings, (The Werner Company, Chicago, c1893)

Jangseung, wooden totem poles, Korea, 1900. These figures were traditionally placed at the edge of a village to mark its boundary and to frighten away demons

Detail of Native American totem pole from Bella Bella on the pacific north-west coast, now in the Horniman Museum in London

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