Big beaver : the celebration of a contemporary totem pole by Norman Tait, Nishga

• Main Author: Fisher, Lizanne
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 1985
• Subjects: Tait; Norman; 1941-; Indian wood-carving > British Columbia; Niska Indians > Social life and customs; Indian; Niska; Nishga
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25388

In April 1982, Nishga carver Norman Tait hosted the raising of a fifty-five foot totem pole named Big Beaver at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois. Over the winter of 1981-82 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tait and five apprentices had carved the pole with images inspired by a...