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  2. Paper: Star House Pole: Early Images of the Haida Totem Pole in the Pitt Rivers Museum
  3. Unit: Early images of Star House Pole (1882–1901)

Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’

External links

E. B. Tylor, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’ (1902)
Tylor, Sir Edward Burnett (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)

Related sources

Image for PRM 1998.267.269.2

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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
Accession number: 
Related Documents File, 1901.39.1
Collection: 
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford

Published article by E. B. Tylor, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post Lately Erected in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford’, Man: A Monthly Record of Anthropological Science, 2 (1902), pp.1–3. Reproduced as the article’s frontispiece or main image (plate A) is a colour lithographic reproduction of a watercolour painting by Alfred Robinson [2004.144.1] showing the Haida totem pole known as ‘Star House Pole’.

Author: Edward Burnett Tylor (‘E. B. Tylor’)
Title of article: ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post Lately Erected in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford’
Title of academic journal: Man: A Monthly Record of Anthropological Science
Issue/number of journal: 2 (1902)
Pagination of article: pages 1 to 3 (with plate A)

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Exhibition caption: ‘Alfred Robinson’s watercolour reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article in the journal Man, “Note on the Haida Totem-Post lately erected in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford” (1902).’ Source: ‘Star House Pole: Early Images of the Haida Totem Pole in the Pitt Rivers Museum’, exhibition curated by Philip Grover, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 9 June to 28 September 2014.