IT Application

Public Art Registry

New search

Advanced search

Kakaso'las

Photo: City of Vancouver

Map zoom

Directions

Location

Stanley Park

Brockton Point

Facing east, far left

Artist(s)

Mungo Martin, Ellen Neel

Artwork information

Program:Gift

Installed:1955

Primary materialsFibreglass

Type:Totem pole

Status:In place

Owner:City of Vancouver

Description of work

This is a Kwakwaka'wakw pole which shows an Eagle, a SeaBear, a woman holding a frog, Bookwus (the Wild Man of the woods) and Dzoonokwa and a Raven at the base.

Artist statement

The pole was originally one of five commissioned in 1955 by Woodwards and installed in front of their store in Edmonton for thirty years before returning here. The pole was renovated by Neel's son Robert, and is now on permanent loan to Stanley Park. (Stewart, Totem Poles, 1990)

Send us your feedback. Please tell us about your experience or wrong or missing information.