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The new ceremonial house in Kitwancool and the mythical Will-a-daugh with her wood worm child on a replica of an old totem pole symbolize the Indian tradition.

«Hole in the Ice» Totem pole of the wolf clan of the Gitksan Tsimshian in Kitwancool. Using ladders, one climbed through the hole into the house. On the pole appears, in addition to three wolves, a bear with his entrails visible. The figures around the hole recall an ancestor who saved his people from starvation.

Four replicas of totem poles in Kitwancool: At far left is a totem pole of the frog clan with the ancestral mother and her frog children. The two poles to the right belong together and represent the wolf clan. The one to the left depicts Will-a-daugh with her wood worm children (see 42); after their death she changed herself into the mountain eagle Skim-sim.