Object Details
- Collection History
- Collected or purchased from local residents in 1938 by George Heye and William A. Newcombe (1884-1960, a Vancouver, British Columbia, collector).
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo) (attributed)
- Collector
- George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957
- William A. Newcombe (William Newcomb), Non-Indian, 1884-1960
- Date created
- 1840-1900
- Object Name
- House frontal pole with doorway with design of a man (the house's owner) and a thunderbird
- Media/Materials
- Red cedar
- Techniques
- Carved
- Dimensions
- 323 x 73 x 18 cm
- Object Type
- Architecture/Housing
