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Look for the lush, dramatic Big Raven (1928) and Forest, British Columbia (1932), in which the trees have the sculptural quality of totem poles.
For the men who are making these new choices, I don't believe there is a masculinity crisis but rather a liberation from an identity constrained by the "I am what I do" and the "I am my status on the totem pole" mentality that dominated the emotional lives of most men in the 20 th century.
Carpentry is the most valued of Kwakiutl skills, and is spectacularly displayed in their totem poles.
A splendid group of Haida and Kwakiutl totem poles nearby illustrate the province’s other important cultural influence.
Dominated by a totem pole from British Columbia, the exhibits include costumes, artifacts, paintings, drawings, and magnificent old photographs from the William Notman archives (said to contain 45,000 prints and negatives).