Oxford funny trip

Last Friday, we went to Oxford and visited 3 museums, what impressed me most is the "Haida totem".

This Haida totem pole is from the Haida community of Masset. It originally stood outside Star House, which belonged to chief Anetlas(c.1816-1893) The pole came to the Pitt Rivers Museum IN 1901, Donated by Professor E.B. Tylor. It was purchased for $36 and shipped by rail and steamer.

There are a lot of similar totems in Haida with a large number of stories. Today, these stories are still part of Haida culture, it might be one of the earliest artistic form of the human being, it was created even earlier than the Egyptian art. From this totems, people can recognize that in the original society, artists had already created several refined method to performance the figures in the myth. These works reflect the worship from the original human to the supernatural energy richly.