Model Totem Pole

Item number 1768/77 from the MOA: University of British Columbia.

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Description

Carved, hollow, wooden, model totem pole with base. From bottom, human, then a beaver with a stick in its mouth, then an eagle with a human in beak and a bear on top. Bear on top is attached with a wooden peg.

Narrative

Said by Richardson to have been given to Emily Collison (first daughter of W.H. Collison, born in Masset) as a present in 1908 at the birth of her son, Jock McDonald. However her marriage record shows Emily marrying her husband Donald J. Macdonald in Kincolith in 1910, so the gift was more likely c. 1910.