Clan cry / call: t'am t'am (imitating a beaver hitting its tail on the water) Raven (giga'k!eni) Crests: raven, åsEwĕ'lgit (seated human figure with human faces carved or painted onto palms, ears, knees and feet), head and beak of a raven, gosEmdela'h (figure of a man, that when Ravens host a feast, is placed head down in the entrance way. There is human hair added, and as the raven chief enters the feast, the hair will touch him) Clan cry / call: Gax gax (Sound of raven croaking) Blackfish (Killer Whale / Orca) (hå'låxaini) Crests: blackfish, dorsal fin or a blackfish, grizzly bear, twilight (red sky of the evening), human figure with another human figure at its breast (walai'gĭtlah), giant deep-sea bear (sa'nis), kelp heads, bu'sbakah (type of sea plant), bŭgwi's and bŭgwå's (Merman and mermaid, resembling humans or monkeys), mountain goat with only one horn, fireweed. Sometimes referred to as Grizzly Bear Clan. Clan cry / call: hŏc hŏc (Imitating the blow hole of an orca) G'psgolox totem pole The G'psgolox totem pole is attached with a legend. It is told that, in 1872, a smallpox epidemic infected the people the Haisla Nation (located in the north of what we now call British Columbia), killing the vast majority of inhabitants. The leader of the Eagle Clan of the Haisla tribe, named Chief G'psgolox, lost his whole family due to the epidemic, as well as many of his friends. The legend tells that the bereaved Chief G'spgolox travelled to the forest and attempted to find help there. In the legend, he met with the spirits Tsooda and Zola, who told the Chief to go to the edge of a mountain at dawn, where he would see his deceased loved ones and learn to heal those still living. In the legend, this is how Chief G'psgolox complied and gained vital knowledge, learning the nature of the spirits, the Haisla spirit of continuance and transition. In appreciation of the spirits' help, Chief G'spgolox commissioned a nine-meter-tall totem pole with three figures. The bottom two figures commemorate the deceased and the top figure represents the Tsooda spirit. The pole, while commemorating the dead, told the tale of Haisla survival. It later became known as The G’psgolox Pole. In 1928 Olof Hanson, the Swedish vice-president to British Columbia, summited a request to the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs to acquire a pole, and in