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Haida House Beams,19th century |
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 Thunderbird Park, ca 1949. RBCM PN 13261 |
These house beams originally projected almost one metre over the front of a house at the Haida village of t’anuu ‘llnagaay. They rested on a framework of rectangular gable plates and supported the roof of the house. |
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 Thunderbird
Park, ca 1949. RBCM PN 13261 |
Here in Thunderbird Park they are exhibited out of context: they are supported by two Nuu-chah-nulth (Huu-ay-aht) interior house posts from Sarita on Barkley Sound. |
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 t’anuu ‘llnagaay,
1897. Charles F. Newcombe photograph. RBCM PN 959. |
Charles F. Newcombe photographed the
house frame with the Sea Lion beams at t’anuu ‘llnagaay in
1911 and purchased them for the provincial museum from a Haida artist
living at Skidegate. |
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 t’anuu ‘llnagaay, 1897. Charles F. Newcombe
photograph. RBCM PN 959. |
Sea Lion heads, the ends of roof beams that supported a house at t’anuu ‘llnagaay. | |
 Thunderbird Park. Trio Crocker photograph. RBCM PN 11686. |
 Thunderbird Park, ca 1949. RBCM PN 13261 |
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