Curiosity

Some years ago now we visited the splendid Museum of Canadian History (reference 2), on the banks of the Ottawa. One of the splendid displays there was a collection of totem poles in the grand hall.

Today, for a reason which will become apparent in due course, I remembered about them and thought to get a picture, my own mostly having vanished, along with some long retired PC. So I turn up reference 2 from where I took the picture left. A house in the Bella Coola settlement of the Komkotes village, in British Columbia, Canada.

Thinking to find a better quality version of the picture, I though to ask Google Image, which, for some reason best known to itself, turned up a number of black and white pictures of warships which look as if they come for the first decades of the twentieth century. A reasonable match on colour mix, but I can't work out the rest of it. It also turned up the Wikipedia entry for 'monochrome'. So readers will have to make do with the one lifted from the museum.

Reference 1: Totem Poles According to Location. Vol. 2 - Barbeau, Marius - 1950.

Reference 2: https://www.historymuseum.ca/.

Reference 3: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2014/10/totem-pole-city.html. The illustration to this post being one of the pictures lost to some retired PC.