The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17537173054)

Title: The American Museum journal

Identifier: americanmuseumjo11amer (find matches)

Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)

Authors: American Museum of Natural History

Subjects: Natural history

Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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80 Till-: .iMi:i!fc.).\ MrsFjM jorn.x.n. Hcfore the Chiefs house. Wrangel

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Looking out to sea at Old "Wrangel l);irt (tf tlic wcitilit of the tr;iiiic luc phiccd afi;aiii,st tliciii. Af^aiii if one ptislics tliroujili the nettles and sahnon-lx'rn' hushes to the ^n-a\cyar(h he will lind t lier-e many ear\-ed posts whieli may he mistaken for little totem jjoJes. There is another ohjeet which when remoxcd from its ))roper position resenihles the totem pole: this is the carved "jfrease trough." It is supported like the ridiicpole of a house in >ueh a ))osition that it hanrease with which it is filled runs out of the fjiant carxcd mouth and falliiiu n))on the lire causes it to hiaze up and illuminate the surrounding's — prohahly at tlie festi\ities of some ureat han- (;uet to the honor of the host and his family. Tlie style of the totem pole and of other car\ed posts \aries more or less from trihe to tribe. Grave posts and house posts amonj^ the Salish tribes of Pufj;et Sound are rather flat bas-reliefs and there are few, if any, tall totem poles. Ainon<i' the Ihiida the totem j)oles are tall, ma.ssive, (ar\cd in the round and of cNcellent workmanship. Totem poles are rare amoni; the Nootka and though this tribe makes many small figures of wood, these are not of excellent workmanship. \t \'ictoria I found a Xootka Indian carxinii' a large totem pole and learned that he was copying to order from a photograpli a Ilaida i)ole for a curio dealer. The curio dealer informed me that he intended to j)ut this on the roof until it was weathered enough to reseml)le an old ))ole. Sepulchres arc made in some totem poles, notably among the Haida and Tlingit. There are several poles of this type at Wrangel. "*"' Such totem poles have at the l)ack .some di.s- tance from the ground a nicjie in which the body is placed. The complete significance of a totem pole

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