The Sim’oogit Laay’ totem pole is returning home after almost 80 years at a UBC museum

Posted on by Wayne Hughes
A chief leads a group of people walking around a totem pole laying down, waiting to be transported.

A Nisga’a totem pole from the house of Laay’ is returning to the territory in northwestern B.C. after being housed in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia since 1947.