Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Big Beaver Totem Pole

Big Beaver Totem Pole

The Women’s Board of the Field Museum of Natural History commissioned the Big Beaver Totem Pole in honor of a permanent exhibit about the Maritime Peoples of the Arctic and Northwest Coast which opened in 1982. Norman Tait, a member of the Nishga’a Band, Tsimshian Tribe of British Columbia, carved the totem pole. Tait’s Chicago totem pole was his first permanent installation in the Americas. The fifty-five-foot-tall monument explains Tait’s family ancestry and the origin of the beaver as its clan symbol. It depicts a legend in which five brothers go on a beaver hunt. The youngest brother discovers the spiritual powers of beavers and helps two of them escape.

This post is for A TO Z Challenge, where there will be a post every day in April except Sundays corresponding to each letter of the alphabet.
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THEME: "In and around Chicago" - All the pictures in this series are monuments, sculptures and fountains shot at various parks in Chicago. View the entire pictures in this sequence here.

4 comments:

  1. Wow that's fantastic. Stopping by from A to Z Challenge, I'm trying to do a photo a day too, good luck with the rest of the month.

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  2. Lovely story. Just dropping by as part of the A-Z challenge. Good luck :)
    Jude xx

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  3. Thank you for your comment in my blog.
    Your theme for the A to Z challenge seems excellent, and your photographs are beautiful.

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  4. Wow, that's one big totem pole! I grew up in Chicago, and recognized the museum in the background. Lovely photo. Visiting from AtoZ

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