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doorway, through which the guests would enter into the feast house. 
The opening was through the beak of the Real-kingfisher and its outspread 
wings were painted on both sides of the opening, on the house front. ^ 
FUNCTION 
The older Real-kingfisher pole is a memorial to a former Lurhawn.^ 
It was erected at the initiative of his successor, of the same name, from 
forty to fifty years ago. 
The Tall-hat pole was erected to commemorate this second Lurhawn, 
after his death, about thirty or forty years ago. 
CARVERS 
The Real-kingfisher pole (Plate X, figure 4; Plate XI, figure 1) was 
carved by Sa’anrhkwanks, of the family of Weesaiks, of Gitwinksilk on 
the Nass, who belongs to the Fire weed phratry.® 
The Tall-hat pole was carved by Mark Weegyet, later the head-chief 
of Gitsegyukla, who belonged to the Fireweed phratry.^ 
These two poles are of the same type; they are both very tall — the 
taller is well over 50 feet and the design and layout of the figures are quite 
similar. We may infer that Weegyet, of Gitsegyukla, deliberately imitated 
the earlier pole of Sa'anrhkwanks, the Nass River carver, or that he was 
assisted in his work by a Nass River carver. Indeed, the carving ascribed 
to Weegyet here is markedly better than in his other work elsewhere. The 
older pole, however, is the finer of the two; the Real-kingfisher at the top, 
and at the bottom, are seldom excelled either on the Skeena or the Nass; 
the designs (eye, ear, feather, etc.) on the wings of the large Real-kingfisher 
at the bottom are characteristic of the upper Nass, and are among the 
best examples of fiat decoration of this type. The four human figures 
aborve — the People-of-the-ladder — are also vigorously conceived and treated. 
It may be noted that the hands of these four beings are placed differently 
in each instance; in the uppermost figure, they are palm to palm and finger 
to finger; in the next below, the arms are crossed on the stomach, one hand 
being above the other; in the third, the hands are between the thighs; in 
the lowest, the hands are uplifted below the chin, and the palms are turned 
forward, away from the body. 
(13) Poles of Gitemraldo and Sanaws, at Gitenmaks (Hazelton) 
OWNERS 
Gitemraldo and his kinsmen Sqawil and Sanaws, all three of whom 
now belong to the Gitenmaks tribe, came originally from the Groundhog 
country, at the headwaters of the Skeena.® They were part of the Qaldo 
*Thc informant, George Derrick (Lurhawii), added here that this crest also belonged to the family of Wutar- 
hayaets, of the Larhsail phratry of Gitwinlkul; but he used it as a painting on the rear partition inside the house. 
‘George Derrick, who is from sixty to sev^enty years of age, said that it was erected when he was "a small boy." 
On the other hand, Mrs. John Larahnitz, who is not far beyond fifty years of age, states that it was erected when she 
was twelve years old. 
•Mrs. John Larahnitz thought that a Gitsegyukla carver had some connexion with the work. 
•Weegyet died in 1926, a very old man. 
•The family of Gitemraldo is now virtually extinct. 
