TOTEM POLES. Two Volume Set.
Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, [1950]. First Editions (& 1st printings). Two volumes, octavo, original pictorial printed wrappers, map endpapers. 880 pp (pagination continuous), illustrated throughout with reproductions of photographs. ASSOCIATION COPIES, with the ownership signatures in ink of Katherine Capes, National Museum, Room 356A, on the upper front covers. Mild chipping and rubbing to covers, a very good, sound set, nice and clean. Item #314375
¶ Marius Barbeau's epic and substantial work on Totem Poles of the West Coast of Caanada and Alaska. Volume One covers Totem Poles According to Crests and Topics, Volume Two covers Totem Poles According to Location. Barbeau joined the National Museum in 1911 (then part of the Geological Survey of Canada) as an anthropologist. Katherine Capes joined the National Museum in 1949 and a great deal of her research dealt with Marius's work and the collections that he created. Katherine was from the Comox Valley, was a founding member of the Courtenay and District Historical Society and one of the first female anthrpologists in Canada and an avid preservationist of both cultural and natural heritage.
Price (CAD): $250.00