After spending more than 100 years in the Royal BC Museum, a totem pole carved by the Nuxalk Nation is returning home.
Originally carved by Louie Snuxyaltwa in the 1800s, the pole was stolen from the village of Talleomy in the early 1900s.
It was then sold to the museum, where it has remained since being purchased in 1912.
On a visit to the museum in 2019, Nuxalk Hereditary Chiefs discovered the pole on display, and attained a verbal agreement to return it, which was never fulfilled.
Last year, Chief Deric Snow, the great-grandson of the pole’s original carver, filed a lawsuit to have the pole returned.
Now, the museum is finally set to fulfill their 2019 agreement, and ship the pole home to it’s original home on February 13th.
