A special ceremony has been held to prepare a “stolen” 37ft memorial totem pole for its return to Canada from Scotland in what is said to be the…
Earl Stephens with Pamela Brown as they join delegates from the Nisga'a nation beside the 11-metre tall memorial pole during a visit to the National Museum of Scotland
It was acquired in 1929 by Canadian curator and ethnographer Marius Barbeau on behalf of the Royal Museum of Scotland, which later became the National Museum of Scotland . It went on display the following year. A closed spiritual ceremony was held on Monday August 28 to prepare the pole for its journey home next month.
Sigidimnak’ Noxs Ts’aawit, Dr Amy Parent, said: “We are grateful to collectively tell a new story that turns the colonial gaze onto itself by acknowledging the complexities of our pole’s theft, its intergenerational absence from our community and the persistence needed to ensure that justice for our ancestors prevails.”
A public arrival ceremony will be held there on September 29 and the pole will be raised in the following days and available for the public to view in October.
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