House Post, Totem Pole

Haida
First Nation
Northwest Coast

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early 20th century

Cedar wood and paint

Overall: 133 7/8 × 12 5/8 × 6 5/16 in. (340 × 32 × 16 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. James Foster Scott, in memory of her late husband, Victor J. Evans

157.9.13882

Geography

Place Made: Haida Gwaii, Canada, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Building Component

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Northwest Coast

Not on view

Exhibition History

People of Potlatch, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich, Sandwich, Massachusetts, May 10, 1987-October 25, 1988.

Provenance

Collected by Victor Justice Evans (1865-1931), Washington, D.C, date unknown; to his widow, (Mabel) Karen Gram Schaefer Evans Scott Allen (1891-1974), Meriden, New Hampshire, 1931; given to present collection, 1957.

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