That was my impression.
I looked into it. Apparently they are actual Nuu-chah-nulth poles from the West Coast, purchased by the CPR and installed at Wapta. The weirdness I saw in them may be due to lurid and inauthentic paint jobs applied after the fact. See here: ethnographicantiquestore.com/product/tote...
Crests and Symbolism of the 2 Wapta Lake Totem Poles: These 2 fine Nuu chah-nulth, or Nootka poles are carved and painted in a pure hereditary tribal tradition of the West Coast of Vancouver lsland. T...
I'm very curious about the totems. Did the First Nations in that area (Secwépemc?) even have a tradition of totem pole creation, or were these imported from the coast?
Absolutely!
In this amateur footage, Vancouver citizens and organizations march in a mass May Day parade through the city's downtown/West End on May 1, 1938--International Workers' Day. Oscar Burritt's remarkable footage includes images of anti-fascist agitprop "floats" (as shown below). tinyurl.com/33rerknk
Shot by amateur filmmaker Oscar C. Burritt, this fascinating footage shows Vancouver citizens and organizations marching in a mass May Day parade through downtown Vancouver and the West End on May 1, ...
Especially since there's no "corpse" in the picture! I guess they didn't have a label for "somnambulist." 😀
Vancouver cineaste Dorothy Fowler (later Burritt) in her amateur experimental travelogue/memoir, "There There: Galiano Island 1940." #SilentFilmtinyurl.com/yc8b5bzt
https://youtu.be/knl-u4hJYlA THREE THERE: Galiano Island 1940 So, by popular demand (I wish!), I'm posting two more excerpts from Three There: Galiano Island 1940, filmed by Oscar Burritt, Dorothy Fow...
Excellent film! Should be better known!
My wife collects vintage postcards, A recently-purchased auction lot included this image of the Great Daibutsu (Buddha) at Kita-Kamakura. Yasujiro Ozu is associated with Kamakura; his grave is there, and the Daibutsu appears in two of his films, "There Was A Father" (1942) and "Early Summer" (1951).
