Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset...’ (1899)
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Published article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, now Erected in the Grounds of Fox Warren, near Weybridge’, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 28 (1899), pp.133–135.
Author: Edward Burnett Tylor (‘Edward B. Tylor’)
Title of article: ‘On the Totem-Post from the Haida Village of Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, now Erected in the Grounds of Fox Warren, near Weybridge’
Title of academic journal: The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [currently renamed The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute]
Issue/number of journal: 28 (1899)
Pagination of article: pages 133 to 135 (with plate 12)
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Exhibition caption: ‘The earliest thoughts of bringing a totem pole to Oxford came in 1897, when Edward Burnett Tylor, Keeper of the University Museum, saw the celebrated example which had been erected in the grounds of Foxwarren, in Surrey, brought to England from Canada some years earlier. The evidence shows that from this time Tylor made considerable efforts to acquire a similar item for the University, noting that “there is a place in this Museum exactly suited to a fine pole of 40 ft or even more, and I am much set on getting one.”’ Source: ‘Star House Pole: Early Images of the Haida Totem Pole in the Pitt Rivers Museum’, exhibition curated by Philip Grover, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 9 June to 28 September 2014.