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Inside the museum, alongside the artifacts of other Pacific civilizations, the rich culture of the coastal tribes — Haida, Kwakiutl, Salish, Tlingit, and Tsimshian — is beautifully displayed and illuminated in a space where the roof-glass seems to open the halls to the heavens.
Farther east is Thunderbird Park, home of the city’s most important collection of Indian carvings — Tsimshian and Haida totem poles, Salish sculpture of their chieftains, and a reconstructed Kwakiutl longhouse.
“Crazy Old Millie,” as she was known locally — “Klee Wyck” or the “Laughing One” to her Kwakiutl Indian friends — was a popular eccentric in Victoria, where she kept a boarding house and wheeled a pet monkey around in a baby carriage.
In the 1880s the government banned this apparently wanton impoverishment, but the Kwakiutl, for whom wealth was measured by what they could give away, continued the practice clandestinely, disguising it as the distribution of Christmas presents.
A splendid group of Haida and Kwakiutl totem poles nearby illustrate the province’s other important cultural influence.