Post on Shore
House post depicting grizzly bear holding an ancestral figure. Other posts from this house were removed in 1956 and are now on display at MOA The posts of the house of Ha'm'cit were carved by a man from Smith Inlet called Si.wit who moved to Xu'mtaspi and married Tom Omhyid's mot...
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| Format: | Still Image |
| Language: | unknown |
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1967
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| Subjects: |
Kwakwaka'wakw
> - Xwamdasbe (Hope Island)
> housepost
> Monument
> Northwest Coast
> Native
> First Nation
> Art
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| Online Access: | https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-3342/post-shore |
| Summary: | House post depicting grizzly bear holding an ancestral figure. Other posts from this house were removed in 1956 and are now on display at MOA The posts of the house of Ha'm'cit were carved by a man from Smith Inlet called Si.wit who moved to Xu'mtaspi and married Tom Omhyid's mother. Ha'm'cit died before the house was finished. (Information provided to Prof. Wilson Duff by Mungo Martin). |
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