By Edward Malin
This survey of totem poles from the Tlingit settlements of Alaska to the Kwakiutl villages of Vancouver Island examines the traditions that resulted in their construction. It contains either the author's brilliant drawings of totem poles and old images of early local settlements.
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Eulachon oil was highly prized and used for both domestic and inter-tribal social activities. Mountain goat wool was a rare commodity and highly prized. Its source was the inaccessible, often dangerous, alpine habitat. The wool was traded by successful hunters to coastal tribes who wove from it garments and robes to clothe members of aristocratic families. Halibut fishing was a deep sea activity inaccessible to coastal and riverine dwellers. Those living near the halibut banks of the west coasts of the Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver Island specialized in catching and smoking it for trade.
While many photographs bear reasonably accurate dates, dates assigned to others may be inaccurate. Then there are those with no dates at all. Certain dates may be inconsistent with what the researcher already knows about a particular place. It was extremely helpful to my research studies to visit the numerous native villages in this book in the mid-1940s, 1960s, and several times in the 1970s. , the problem of Haida settlements at Kasaan and Kaisun, two distinctly different places, one being in the Queen Charlotte Islands; or to give still another example, those at Tsawatti and Nawitti, Kwakiutl villages near Vancouver Island.
One can imagine the calamity and rivalry that ensued. A few miles northward at Hope Island the Nawitti tribe founded Humdaspi (plate 23). Southward along the west coast of Vancouver Island to Quatsino Inlet were other villages belonging to four different tribes. The fortunes of three were such that they disappeared quickly in the late 19th century. The surviving group, the Koskimo, settled at Quattish which was abandoned in the late 1950s. ) with great skill. They were a center of innovation, accommodating to foreign settlers and amenable to changes in their material and spiritual existence in spite of determined effort to retain the critical core of their spiritual heritage.