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Enlarge cover image for The Totem pole [videorecording] / produced by University Extension, University of California, Berkeley ; writing, S.A. Barrett, W.B. Heick, C.C. Macauley. VHS

The Totem pole [videorecording] / produced by University Extension, University of California, Berkeley ; writing, S.A. Barrett, W.B. Heick, C.C. Macauley.

Summary:

Discusses the history, types and distinguishing characteristics of the totem poles of the Haida and Kwakiutl of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska, describing them as monuments to the person or family for whom they were carved and erected. Mungo Martin and Henry Hunt demonstrate the various stages in their production.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
  • Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Extension Media Center, [198-?]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"37143"--Container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1963.
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Photography, editing, W.R. Heick ; narrator, A.J. Ostroff.
Subject:
Totem poles.
Indian wood-carving > Northwest Coast of North America.