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and also, according to a statement,^ in commemoration of Neetuh.^ It 
is believed to be over thirty years old. 
The second pole was erected, twenty or thirty years ago, as a memorial 
to Neetuh, a leading member in Hanamuk’s family, who was murdered 
for witchcraft by Kamehmelmuk (nicknamed Gitwinlkul Jim), in 1887. 
CARVERS 
The carver of this pole, Kwawdzabarh (of the family of Alla-ist), 
belonged to the Larhsail phratry, at Kitwanga.® His treatment of the 
figures is individual and mature; and the carving, of remarkably good 
quality, is a characteristic instance of Gitksan art. 
The Neetuh pole was carved by Lutkudzeeus (Tom Campbell), of the 
Larhsail phratry, now about sixty years old and living at Hazelton. 
(21) Poles of Gitludahl, at Kispayaks 
OWNERS 
The families of Gitludahl and Gurhsan mutually claim close relation- 
ship.** That of Gitludahl seems to have been part of the Kispayaks tribe 
practically since the time of its foundation. Gitludahl is connected with 
Wawsemlarhse so intimately that their respective families are sometimes 
considered as part of the same kinship group. The former now is almost 
extinct. Both are, we surmise, branches of the same original stock, from 
Temlaham. 
Two totem poles belong to the family of Gitludhal, those of the White- 
Owl and of the Grizzly-of-the-Sun. 
DESCRIPTION 
The first pole (Plate XIV, figure 5; Plate XVI, figure 1) consists of 
two large Owls, superposed, and of several diminutive human figures or 
heads. Two of the small figures or heads are treated as decoration in the 
ears of the Owl at the top; two others are between the ears, over the fore- 
head, of the two Owls; and three stand independently, side by side, at the 
bottom of the pole. Two of these human figures, those on each side at 
the bottom, have fern tendrils as headgear. These conventional tendrils 
presumably allude to another crest of the same group, Mountain-fern 
{’Wee’arkJ, which will appear more fully on another pole, described below.® 
‘By Dan Gurhsan. 
‘Fanny Johnsons the present Hanamuk (and the wife of Gitwinlkul Jim at the time of Neetuh’s murder) claims 
to be responsible jointly with her relative Kwawmats (Jimmy Good) for the construction of this pole, some twenty - 
five years ago. 
•Alec Brown (Wawralaw) , of Gitsegyukla, believed that the author of this pole was the renowned carver Hlamee, 
of Gitwinlkul. 
♦To use the terms of Nurhs (Jimmy Williams), a Kispayaks informant, "Gurhsan is the only one w'e know as 
a foreign relative," 
♦This first totem pole of Gitludahl was acquired by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 
about 1923, One of the smaller figures was at the time removed from the pole, the one between the ears of Owl 
at the top. 
