NEW BRITISH MUSEUM SENTINEL
Visitor* to the British Museum are familiar with the great statues from Easter Island which stand on guard beneath the portico. These two symbols of a lost race now have as company a Bed Indian totem pole from Queen Charlotte Island, in British Columbia. The pole has been in the museum since lOtt.'l, but is now being displayed for the iirst time. It i* 39ft. bigh, having been carved from a cedar trunk, and when it arrived at the museum it was necessary to snw it. in two. Now it. lias been pul together again and look* down on Bloomsbu’rv after 30 years in hiding.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 2
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109NEW BRITISH MUSEUM SENTINEL Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 219, 12 June 1933, Page 2
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