The totem pole has been in Scotland for almost a century since it was sold to the museum by Canadian anthropologist Marius Barbeau. However, Nisga'a researchers say it was stolen without consent ...
Museum curator Marius Barbeau had been eyeing the totem pole for some time. It was the late 1920s, and the Canadian ethnographer had paid many visits to the Ank'idaa village in the Nass Valley ...