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Postcard: Prospect Point Totem Pole, c.1953

"Vancouver, B. C., Canada

Indian Totem Pole, Prospect Point, Stanley Park.

V.N. 58"

Post Card. Published by The Coast Publishing Co., Vancouver, B.C.

 

Thunderbird Dynasty Pole carved by Squamish (Salish) Chief Mathias Joe (a.k.a. Mathias Joe Capilano) and raised at Prospect Point in 1936 during Vancouver's Golden Jubilee. Carved in a northern style in Vancouver expressly to stand in Stanley Park; The pole was noted for not having been transported south from a community where it had served social and political functions.

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Uploaded on October 18, 2013
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