Mortuary House
A frontal pole was erected in front of the gable-roofed structure, and was later purchased by C.F. Newcombe for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. At the top of the pole is the killer whale, which is symbolic of people who have drowned, and below, the supernatural snag, which was cr...
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| Format: | Still Image |
| Language: | unknown |
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1915
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| Online Access: | https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-581/mortuary-house |
| _version_ | 1821534290520834048 |
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| author2 | Unknown |
| collection | SFU Digitized Collections (Simon Fraser University) |
| description | A frontal pole was erected in front of the gable-roofed structure, and was later purchased by C.F. Newcombe for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. At the top of the pole is the killer whale, which is symbolic of people who have drowned, and below, the supernatural snag, which was credited with the power to upset canoes. |
| format | Still Image |
| genre | haida Killer Whale Killer whale |
| genre_facet | haida Killer Whale Killer whale |
| geographic | Cumshewa Queen Charlotte Snag |
| geographic_facet | Cumshewa Queen Charlotte Snag |
| id | ftsfrazerunivdc:oai:digital.lib.sfu.ca:billreid_581 |
| institution | Open Polar |
| language | unknown |
| long_lat | ENVELOPE(-131.685,-131.685,53.043,53.043) ENVELOPE(-132.088,-132.088,53.255,53.255) ENVELOPE(-140.371,-140.371,62.399,62.399) |
| op_collection_id | ftsfrazerunivdc |
| op_coverage | Cumshewa |
| op_relation | billreid:581 local: Cumshewa25 uuid: 8c21a23b-5219-4268-a7f4-69322a45d313 https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-581/mortuary-house |
| publishDate | 1915 |
| record_format | openpolar |
| spelling | ftsfrazerunivdc:oai:digital.lib.sfu.ca:billreid_581 2025-01-16T22:16:21+00:00 Mortuary House Unknown Cumshewa ca. 1915 https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-581/mortuary-house unknown billreid:581 local: Cumshewa25 uuid: 8c21a23b-5219-4268-a7f4-69322a45d313 https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-581/mortuary-house Haida --- Hydah--Queen Charlotte Islands--Totem Poles--Haida Gwaii-- Haida --- Cumshewa--Hydah--Queen Charlotte Islands--Totem Poles--Haida Gwaii-- Photographs StillImage 1915 ftsfrazerunivdc 2019-07-10T07:05:10Z A frontal pole was erected in front of the gable-roofed structure, and was later purchased by C.F. Newcombe for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. At the top of the pole is the killer whale, which is symbolic of people who have drowned, and below, the supernatural snag, which was credited with the power to upset canoes. Still Image haida Killer Whale Killer whale SFU Digitized Collections (Simon Fraser University) Cumshewa ENVELOPE(-131.685,-131.685,53.043,53.043) Queen Charlotte ENVELOPE(-132.088,-132.088,53.255,53.255) Snag ENVELOPE(-140.371,-140.371,62.399,62.399) |
| spellingShingle | Haida --- Hydah--Queen Charlotte Islands--Totem Poles--Haida Gwaii-- Haida --- Cumshewa--Hydah--Queen Charlotte Islands--Totem Poles--Haida Gwaii-- Mortuary House |
| title | Mortuary House |
| title_full | Mortuary House |
| title_fullStr | Mortuary House |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mortuary House |
| title_short | Mortuary House |
| title_sort | mortuary house |
| topic | Haida --- Hydah--Queen Charlotte Islands--Totem Poles--Haida Gwaii-- Haida --- Cumshewa--Hydah--Queen Charlotte Islands--Totem Poles--Haida Gwaii-- |
| topic_facet | Haida --- Hydah--Queen Charlotte Islands--Totem Poles--Haida Gwaii-- Haida --- Cumshewa--Hydah--Queen Charlotte Islands--Totem Poles--Haida Gwaii-- |
| url | https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/billreid-581/mortuary-house |