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These house posts was collected in 1893 in Kitimat at the upper end of the Douglas Channel. They belonged to the Haisla Kwakiutl. (173 cm: MOA)
MOA = Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

These house posts was collected in 1893 in Kitimat at the upper end of the Douglas Channel. They belonged to the Haisla Kwakiutl. (159 cm: MOA)
MOA = Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

This soul catcher, representing the two-headed sea monster Sisiutl, belonged to a Haisla shaman from Kitlope, located on the Gardner Canal. If the shaman was successful in recovering the patient's lost soul during the healing ritual, he would keep it in the body of the small human figure, whose head is removable, and return it to the patient. (16 cm; MOA)
MOA = Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

In this bentwood box, measuring only 32 cm (13 inches), a Haisla shaman from Kitamaat stored his utensils. The lid is decorated with opercula, the "plugs" of a sea snail shell. (MOA)
MOA = Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver