Totems: Indians of British Columbia
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1987.9.17
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Boulton, Laura, 1899-1980
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content: Laura Boulton films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (16 minutes, color silent; 557 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1943
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film produced for the National Film Board of Canada which discusses the beliefs and myths associated with Haida and Tsimshian totem poles. Film describes the social significance (rank and prestige) of these family crests acquired through inheritance, trade, and conquest among the Northwest Coast Indians. Featured are the myth of the raven totem on Queen Charlotte Island, British Columbia; mortuary posts; and ancestral villages.

Legacy Keywords: Statuary totem poles ; Kinship totemism ; Potlatch ; Tombstones ; Settlement rural ; Buildings Haida house symbolic art ; Songs traditional ; Landscape scenic shots of countryside