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Thunderbird Park Name Post

 

Thunderbird Park Name Post, 1960-1962
Carvers: Mungo Martin and Henry Hunt
Uprights based on: Kwakwaka’wakw House Post
This name post was taken down in 2006.

 

This is the third version of the Thunderbird Park name post. Like the former versions, it had a Thunderbird perched on the crosspiece. This was removed to museum storage when it became badly deteriorated and unstable. The Sea Lion lintel was made by Mungo Martin, who died in 1962, the year the name post was installed. The uprights depicting Grizzly Bears are copied from a house post in the Gwasilla village of Takus in Smith Inlet that was purchased by the Royal BC Museum in 1950 (RBCM 17745). 
RBCM 20112 (lintel); 20113, 20114 (posts).
All Colour Images - RBCM, 2006.



Thunderbird Park Name Post
Sea Lions on the ends of the crosspiece.
Close Up of Sea Lions
Close Up of Sea Lions
Grizzly Bear
Close Up of Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bears on the uprights. These are based on house posts that supported the roof of a traditional house at Takus in Smith Inlet, a Kwakwaka’wakw (Gwasilla) community.
Grizzly Bear
Close Up of Grizzly Bear

Name Post in SituTakus, 1905. Charles F. Newcombe photograph. RBCM PN 682.
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