Star House Pole: Early Images of the Haida Totem Pole in the Pitt Rivers Museum | cabinet

Welcome to this new online edition of an exhibition curated by Philip Grover at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (9 June to 28 September 2014). Please click ‘Start Here’ to continue.

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Start Here: Guide to the Exhibition

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Early images of Star House Pole (1882–1901)

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Writings on ‘totemism’ by Professor Edward Burnett Tylor

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Original documents relating to the Haida totem pole

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Photographs of the Haida totem pole in the Pitt Rivers Museum (1901 onwards)

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Haida totem pole in the Pitt Rivers Museum (‘Star House Pole’)

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Early photographs of Masset by Richard Maynard

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