Header - Thunder Bird Park

Title - Late Park

Nuxalk carving in Thunderbird Park Thunderbird Park, 1977.
Andrew Niemann photograph.
RBCM PN 13195-13.

Nuxalk Carving, 1954
Carvers: Mungo Martin, David Martin and Henry Hunt
Based on: Nuxalk Grave Marker

 

This is a version of a grave figure that Charles F. Newcombe purchased at Talio, on South Bentinck Arm, in 1913 (RBCM 2311). It was erected in Thunderbird Park in 1941.
RBCM 20126.

Close up of Beaver and Grizzly Bear headThunderbird Park, 1977.
Andrew Niemann photograph.
RBCM PN 13195-13.

Beaver at the top of the pole. A crest of the deceased.

 

 

Grizzly Bear, standing with paws raised, also a crest of the deceased. 

Nuxalk Carving amoungst other exhibits in Thunderbird ParkThunderbird Park, 1977.
Andrew Niemann photograph.
RBCM PN 13195-13.
Nuxalk Carving amoungst other exhibits in Thunderbird ParkThunderbird Park, 1975. BC Government photograph.
BC Archives I-20999.
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