Title

Carved posts at Alert Bay, c1914. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis.

Caption

Carved posts at Alert Bay, c1914. Two totem poles in front of a wood frame house in the Nimkish village Yilis, on Cormorant Island. Totem pole depicts an eagle representing the owner's paternal crest and a grizzly bear symbolizing the maternal one.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A01_301

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

4,5Mb (184,7Kb) / 20,5in x 14,9in / 1478 x 1072 (72dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors animal North America building buildings wood library historical house houses arts carving country eagle bear sculpture art British Columbia Canada post color grizzly bear crest structure wooden handicraft handicrafts native Native American totem pole totem poles carved location century photograph concept photo B&W American Indian Library of Congress United States of America Colour wood carving black & white black and white B W white and black North American Indian 1900s 20th century genealogy heraldry Kwakiutl woodcarving culture American history historic America USA heraldic Kwakwaka'wakw TGN outside indigenous photograph united states Alert Bay Edward Sheriff Curtis Curtis Edward Sheriff 1914 Congressional Library carved wood Heritage Art family history Edward S. Curtis Curtis Edward S. Hand Carved wooden sculpture Cormorant Island