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Children helping raise Gitanyow totem pole
- Date Range
- September 21, 1996
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Photo of several children pulling on a rope to help raise one of the totem pole at Gitanyow.
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Creator
- Gretel Miles
- Fonds No.
- BF5
- Series No.
- S4
- Item No.
- P8148
- Accession No.
- 2020.36
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph; colour
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Date Range
- September 21, 1996
- History / Biographical
- Two totem poles were raised in Gitanyow on September 21st 1996, both belonging to Frog Clan members. One, Flying Frog, had been waiting to be raised for 8 years. The other, Frog Raven, a family pole for Chief Gweeu, was a replacement for a pole that had been taken by the Royal BC Museum in the 1950s. The original had been briefly returned to the village to be replicated by carvers Earl Muldon, Dan Yunkws, and Gerald Good. (See Interior News, October 2nd 1996 for more info).
- Custodial History
- Photo was taken by Interior News staff for publication in the paper. It was retained by the Interior News until being transferred to the Bulkley Valley Museum, likely in 2007, as part of a large donation of photographs, negatives, and textual records. Item was stored in Room 6 until being found in collections and accessioned in Fall 2020.
- Scope and Content
- Photo of several children pulling on a rope to help raise one of the totem pole at Gitanyow.
- Arrangement
- Item was found in an envelope with other photographs from the same date. All photographs in this series have been removed from original order and arranged in the order in which they were scanned.
- Geographic Access
- Gitanyow, B.C.
- Related Material
- P8148-P8152
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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