Year of Object(s) Creation: 1872
Estimated Value ($USD):
Object Type(s): Totem Pole
Object Material(s): wood
Provenience Nation: Canadian Tribal Nation
Provenience Location: Misk’usa, British Columbia, Canada
Year Removed from Findspot: 1928

Provenance
Start Year: 2006
End Year:
Circumstance of Acquisition: Restitution
Nation: Canada
Location: Kitimaat Village, British Columbia
Start Year: 1928
End Year: 2006
Circumstance of Acquisition: Theft
Nation: Sweden
Location: Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm
Start Year: 1872
End Year: 1928
Circumstance of Acquisition: Creation
Nation: Canada
Location: Misk’usa, British Columbia

Indigenous G’psgolox Totem Pole


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Case Status: Object(s) relinquished
Year Claim Initiated: 1991
Year Claim Resolved: 2006
Means of Resolution: Arbitration

Complainant Name: Haisla Nation
Complainant Nation: Canadian Tribal Nation
Complainant Nation Economy: Developed
Complainant Type: Private: Institution

Respondent Name: Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm
Respondent Nation: Sweden
Respondent Nation Economy: Developed
Respondent Type: Public: Institution

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Editor's Notes:
The University of Geneva's ArThemis project (reference in URL above) offers in-depth documentation and discussion of this dispute. Edited by Tali Maximon WHERE IS IT NOW? The totem pole was returned to the forest where it was originally carved in at the mouth of the Kitlope Valley in British Columbia, Canada. This action is the tribes' decision to return to the pole to the Earth, letting it decompose.