 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
||||||||
 |
 |
 |
|
||||||
 |
 |
|
|||||||
 |
|
||||||||
 |
 |
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||
 |
 |
|
|||||||
 |
 |
|
|||||||
|
|||||||||
 |
 |
|
|||||||
 |
 |
|
|||||||
 |
 |
|
|||||||
 |
|
||||||||
Thunderbird Park Name Post, 1960-62
|
 Thunderbird
Park, 1957. BC Government photograph. BC Archives I-21002. |
| The previous name post
in Thunderbird Park was thought to be insufficiently authentic in
style, so Mungo Martin and Henry Hunt started this new version in
1960. The Thunderbird was made by Henry Hunt. Mungo Martin made the
Sea Lion lintel and the name was carved into it by the BC Parks Branch.
The uprights were made later. They depict Grizzly Bears and are based
on a house post in the Kwakwaka’wakw (Gwasilla)
village of Takus in Smith Inlet that was purchased by the
provincial museum in 1950 (RBCM 17745). The new name post was installed
in 1962. The Thunderbird deteriorated over the years and had to be
removed. It is now in museum storage. RBCM 20096 a-e (Thunderbird), 20112 (lintel); 20113, 20114 (posts). |
 Thunderbird
Park, 1957. BC Archives I-21000. |
 Thunderbird
Park, 1957. BC Archives I-21000. |
|
Thunderbird, characteristically
shown with outstretched wings, curved horns and a face in its chest. |
||
 Thunderbird
Park, 1957. BC Archives I-21000. |
 Thunderbird
Park, 1957. BC Archives I-21000. |
|
 Thunderbird
Park, 1957. BC Archives I-21000. |
||
 Thunderbird Park, 1969. BC Government photograph. RBCM PN 12988-4. |
||
 Takus, 1905. Charles F. Newcombe photograph.
RBCM PN 682. Grizzly Bears on the uprights. These are based on one of a pair of house posts that supported the roof of a traditional house at Takus in Smith Inlet, a Kwakwaka’wakw (Gwasilla) community. |
||
| Back to Map |