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Skedans, Louise Island, Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve Aerial, British Columbia, Canada CM11-15

Skedans, Louise Island, Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve Aerial, British Columbia, Canada CM11-15

Description : K,uuna Llnagaay is situated on the eastern tip of Louise Island and faces south onto Skedans Bay from a crescent beach forming the neck of a small peninsula. As the furthest north of all the Watchmen sites, its relative accessibility makes it one of the most highly visited. Its name means Village at the Edge, but it was also known by the Haida as Grizzly-Bear-Town because of the large number of grizzly bear carvings to be found there; traders from away named it Skedans, a corruption of the name of its chief, Gida,nsta.

In the mid-1800s almost 450 Haida lived here in about 26 longhouses. An 1878 survey shows record of 56 monumental cedar sculptures, including frontal poles, single and double mortuary poles, memorial poles and mortuary figures. The famous Canadian artist Emily Carr visited K’uuna Llnagaay in 1907.

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