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© Adelaide de Menil		Object name     Photograph Culture of Origin     Tlingit Subject     Totem Pole, Forest Photographer     Adelaide de Menil Exhibit Label     The Cormorant Memorial/Mortuary Column came from the Tlingit village of Tuxekan, Alaska. The column was carved between 1888 and 1903 and Governor Brady acquired the pole in November 1903 from George Staney or Thomas Snuck. It was sent to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904 and then traveled to the Lewis & Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon in 1905. It arrived at Sitka National Monument in 1906. The column was patched in 1939 and eventually recarved by Nathan Jackson in 1979. Source: Patrick, Andrew 2002 The Most Striking of Objects: The Totem Poles of Sitka National Historical Park. Anchorage, Alaska: National Park Service and Sitka National Historical Park. Pages 160-161. Original Photo Source ID     de Menil 66-8-41E/3 Source     Ms. Adelaide De Menil Credit     Gift of Adelaide de Menil

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