The Family
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
The Family
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Enhancement
Description
Is the family coming home for Christmas at your house? Looks like the gang’s all here and they’re hungry!
Totem poles are typically carved from the trunks of western red cedar trees, which decay eventually in the rain forest environment of the Northwest Coast. Few examples of poles carved before 1900 therefore exist. Examples include those at the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, dating as far back as 1880. While 18th-century accounts of European explorers along the coast indicate that poles existed prior to 1800, they were smaller and fewer in number than in subsequent decades.
One of Stanley Park's most-visited tourist attractions in British Columbia is the totem-pole display at Brockton Point. Begun in the early 1920's with just four totems from Vancouver Island's Alert Bay region, the display grew over the decades to include totems from the Queen Charlotte Islands and Rivers Inlet on British Columbia's central coast. Some of the original totem poles were carved as early as the late 1880's and have been sent to museums for preservation; others were commissioned or loaned to the park between 1986 and 1992.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the Fine Art America watermark.
Image copyright 2019 Jon Burch Photography
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December 18th, 2019
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