Eagle down floated in the air outside the Royal B.C. Museum Monday morning as members of a First Nation from the Central Coast readied a totem pole to come home after more than a century in the museum’s collection.
After it came out of the building, the pole was moved to lie next to the Mungo Martin longhouse, adjacent to the museum, where women from Nuxalk performed a ceremony to bless and awaken the pole. Rubbing eagle feathers on the wood, they danced around the totem while others drummed and sang. Following two days of ceremony at the Mungo Martin longhouse, the pole will be transported to Nuxalk territory via Williams Lake, where a convoy will meet the truck transporting it to complete the journey to Bella Coola. The nation plans to keep the totem pole in the school in Bella Coola for about a year, while working on a replica. The original is intended to return to South Bentinck in May 2024, while the replica will likely remain in the school, Snow said.
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