A thick plank of giant Cedar wood, nicked at the top to receive the house beam
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: OPPS NEG.4323
label: Local Note
content: Similar to Haida house post (different carving, same story) reproduced in Krieger, H. W., "Indian Villages of Southeast Alaska", S.I.A.R. for 1927, Washington, 1928, Plate 9 (right), with caption: "Carved Flat Sections of Corner House Posts from the Haida Village of Tanu, Queen Charlotte Islands. Now in the U. S. National Museum."
label: Local Note
content: Black and white copy negative
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Additional Materials / ANONYMOUS
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Photograph (8x10 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca 1904
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Reproduced in Marius Barbeau, "Totem Poles," National Museum of Canada Bulletin 119, 1950, Volume 2, page 632.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: "A thick plank of giant Cedar wood, nicked at the top to receive the house beam and carved and painted on the front with a decorative symbolic design representing an imaginary sea monster called 'Tsemos,' which is thought to move erratically like a drifting tree whose roots are weighted with rocks and earth." (Label with specimen on exhibit in U. S. National Museum).