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Northwest Coast Style House Front, 1941 |
 Thunderbird Park. T. W. S. Parsons photograph. RBCM PN 6456. |
| The adzed wall and roof boards of this pseudo-Northwest Coast
house may have come from a Songhees house on Discovery Island near
Victoria in 1940, but the painted design is unrelated. According
to a Thunderbird Park guidebook from the period, the design was copied
from a Kwakwaka’wakw drawing, but it is unclear
what this refers to. The design is similar to one on a Haida house
owned by Captain Gold, called Moon House, that stood at
Second Beach near Skidegate, Haida Gwaii. It may have been adapted
from a photograph of this house taken by Richard Maynard in 1884.
The design shows two birds in profile flanking a large central face
with double eyes and a wide mouth with teeth. Whatever the origin
of the house frontal painting, it strays from the original model;
the conventions of Northwest Coast design were not well understood
by the painter. RBCM 5040 (?, House Boards). |
 Thunderbird
Park. T. W. S. Parsons photograph. RBCM PN 6456. |
Two birds shown in profile, perhaps Thunderbirds, flank a large
central face with double eyes and a wide mouth with teeth. |
 Thunderbird Park. T. W. S. Parsons photograph.
RBCM PN 6456. |
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Thunderbird Park, 1950s. BC Archives B-07298.| Back to Stylized House |